setting up modem in FC3

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 11.01.2005 schrieb Langer, Christian um 17:30:

> I installed an external modem on my Dell Pc and the the modem was
> recognized fine; but when I do the network setup, the modem dials the
> number fine, and then several seconds of silence, and then redials. This
> cycle repeats as long as you let it, but never connects  My isp password
> and username are correct.  Could this be an isp problem, or am I missing
> something?

> Chris Langer

It would be helpful to see the corresponding syslog messages by pppd in
/var/log/messages. Easiest way to observe the syslog is to run "tail -f
/var/log/messages" in a terminal while in your case trying to dial in.
You may activate "debug" and "kdebug=4" for the pppd to get more verbose
output.

Alexander


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