[H-GEN] modem/ppp problems

[Marc D]

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Sarah Hollings wrote:

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>
> Machine:
> Pentium 133 with couple of HD's, running Debian (Corel distro, with KDE
> desktop) 2.2.14 kernel, 33.6 ext modem on ttyS1.  kppp gui dialer.
> dualboot from lilo with win 98.
>
> Symptoms/errors:
> #1:  After boot-up, running the kppp dialer (which has worked just fine,
> prior to upgrading to 2.2.14 from 2.2.12) reports in its "log" window:
> /* usual modem initialisation ATZ, volume setting etc, etc */
> ATDT32442366 <edit
>
>
> #2:  After giving error #1 exactly once, it then runs the dialer thru,
> connects at 115200 and passes control to the ppp daemon.  Which then
> "terminates unexpectedly".
>
> #3:  Finally, it dials and connects, the pppd takes control and runs,
> apparently just fine.  But I cannot connect to any server, download
> mail, view any web pages etc.  Pinging the isp's name servers gives 100%
> packet loss.
>

If there is any possible way, try grabbing an updated package of ppp.
Running RedHat I experienced the same problems where after booting, it would
take 2 dials to establish a ppp connection.  I figured this out to be a ppp
problem and promptly upgraded pppd and all is fixed.  This only happened when
I went to 2.2.14 also.



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