SOLVED: Dialup modem hangs up before completing connection

[OzzyBB]

Hello all.

My machine is an AMD 1.25 Mhz box, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard disk with Win XP and SuSE partitions, with a SiS network card and a Lucent Winmodem included. it also has a Liteon CD burner.

For the last month I've been trying to get it to dialup with Puppy 1.0.4, without luck. I did manage to connect it as a DHCP client, using another Win XP machine with a shared dialup connection as the gateway.

Yesterday I downloaded Puppy 1.0.5, and I finally got it to dialup with "eznet". However, it hangs up before completing the connection, here is an extract of the log file generated by "eznet":

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This is a diagnostic log of the most recent login
attempt by eznet.

ISP Name: "TERRALIBRE"
Call Initiated: Sat Oct 8 18:19:22 2005

The UNIX command used to initiate the connection attempt was:

/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/modem 115200 connect '/usr/bin/eznet chat 1' defaultroute lock modem mtu 552 mru 552 crtscts -detach idle 300 user anonymous remotename TERRALIBRE

The interaction with the modem was as follows:

19:24.045 Send: "atz\r"
19:24.612 Skip: "atz\r\r\n"
19:25.162 Recv: "OK\r\n"
19:25.162 Match: "OK"
19:25.162 Send: "at&d3\r"
19:25.272 Skip: "at&d3\r\r\n"
19:25.822 Recv: "OK\r\n"
19:25.822 Match: "OK"
19:25.822 Send: "atd140100\r"
19:26.482 Recv: "atd140100\r"
19:54.542 Skip: "\r\n"
19:55.092 Recv: "CONNECT 45333 V42bis\r\n"
19:55.092 Match: "CONNECT"
19:59.052 Send: "\r"
20:03.012 Send: "\r"
20:07.102 Accept

The following messages were written to the system log
(in /var/log/messages) by pppd as it attempted to negotiate
a PPP connection. To see more detail, set the "debug=yes"
property and reattempt the logon.

Oct 8 18:19:22 (none) daemon.notice pppd[700]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Oct 8 18:20:07 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: Serial connection established.
Oct 8 18:20:07 (none) daemon.debug pppd[700]: using channel 1
Oct 8 18:20:07 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: Using interface ppp0
Oct 8 18:20:07 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: Connect: ppp0 -> /dev/modem
Oct 8 18:20:08 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ru 552> syncmap 0x0> agic 0xf7d959d9> comp> ccomp>]
Oct 8 18:20:11 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ru 552> syncmap 0x0> agic 0xf7d959d9> comp> ccomp>]
Oct 8 18:20:15 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ru 552> syncmap 0x0> agic 0xf7d959d9> comp> ccomp>]
Oct 8 18:20:15 (none) daemon.notice pppd[700]: Modem hangup
Oct 8 18:20:15 (none) daemon.notice pppd[700]: Connection terminated.
Oct 8 18:20:16 (none) daemon.info pppd[700]: Exit.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

I'm sure there's a configuration file I'm missing here. I don't want to guess anymore. Please help!

Thank you all in advance,


Oswaldo
"OzzyBB"

[Flash]

This seems to be a common problem when trying to use internal dialup modems in Linux. It happened to me, and the PCI card modem wasn't even a softmodem. I never figured out the answer before I got high-speed internet and went on to other things.

I notice that what appear to be the times for the modem entries don't match the times of the pppd log entry. Are these from the same connection attempt?

Also, you might try setting "debug=yes" and then trying to connect, to see if anything useful shows up.

[OzzyBB]

Hello flash.

If you look carefully, you'll notice the second set of log times are for the minutes only. Yes, they are form the same connection attempt.

I'll figure out how to set up the "debug" option and give it another go, thanks.

[OzzyBB]

Hello all,

I'm very pleased to let you know I just solved it!

Using eznet in the console, I entered the command:

eznet change (ISPNAME) chat=no

and that did the trick.

I'm writing this from my Puppy box, and I'm loving it!

Warmest greetings from Peru,

OzzyBB