dial-up networking

[Asif Lodhi]

Hi Bruno,

On 9/24/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> You haven't provided information that is going to be of much help.
> You need to isolate where the problem is. The minicom suggestion was
> a good one. That allows you to test out your modem and make sure it
> can dial out and connect. You can't test the PPP network connection there,
> but at least you can establish that the modem is working properly.

Minicom also throws up the same message - "No Carrier". I am using the
same US Robotics external message modem with Windows. So, the modem is
working perfectly well.

> /var/log/messages may also have some useful information as a few things
> dealing with setting up the ppp connection will probably be logged there.

Thanks, I'll check it out as well.

> (I use pppd which may be a bit different than kppp, but I would still expect
> to see some stuff logged in /var/log/messages.)

Though I am not too sure but doesn't kppp use pppd underneath the GUI????

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Best regards,

Asif