[hcflinux] kppp

[Sebastien Fievet]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:09:44 +1200
Cameron Hart <cam at bitshifter.net.nz> wrote:

> I tried wvdial to see if it would work better for me than kppp. It did 
> dectect /dev/ttySHCF0 which kppp never manages to do. However wvdial 
> hasn't fixed the problem with my connection dying regularily. wvdial is 
> a nice little tool though, very easy to use.
> 

Your connexion dies before, or after having reached your ISP portal?
If it is before, it may be due to something wrong in your configuration files. wvdial needs a "resolv.conf" file storing IP addresses. If you don't have this file, it fails to resolve connecting dialog, and kills the ppp daemon.



> I couldn't get kwvdial to compile on my machine.
> 
> BTW, I'm using Mandrake 8.2.
> 
> Cam.
> 
> Marc Boucher wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 03:34:53PM -0400, Pierre Lepage wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Your'e right ! I found an rpm package named kwvdial, I installed it and ...
> >>all went ok.
> >>
> >>Here, a suggestion to include in the README file coming with the hcfpci
> >>package :
> >>
> >>Advise newbies that kppp and the like doesn't works all the time and
> >>sometime doesn't works not at all. Other solution exist.
> > 
> > 
> > Equivalent comment added to BUGS file.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Marc
> > 
> > 
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Pierre
> >>
> >>-----Message d'origine-----
> >>De : Sebastien Fievet [mailto:sebastien.fievet at free.fr]
> >>Envoyé : 19 juillet, 2002 16:23
> >>À : john at spray.screaming.net
> >>Cc : famille.lepage at globetrotter.net;
> >>Objet : Re: [hcflinux] kppp
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Either kppp of gppp are only a high level layer upon wvdial. You should try
> >>to run wvdial from the command line, to see the error message it gives.
> >>
> >>Regards, Sebastien.
> >>
> >>On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:04:12 +0100
> >>John Spray <john at spray.screaming.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Bonjour,
> >>>Pour moi, kppp ne fonctionner pas, mais rp3 (Redhat internet dialler)
> >>>fonctionner bien.
> >>>(My french is non-existant :-)
> >>>Since you're using gnome rather than kde, kppp doesn't particularly offer
> >>
> >>you
> >>
> >>>anything that rp3 doesn't.
> >>>
> >>>Hope that helps.
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>John Spray
> >>>(john at spray.screaming.net)
> >>>
> >>
> >>>On Friday 19 Jul 2002 3:23 am, Pierre Lepage spewed forth thus:
> >>>
> >>>>Bonjour,
> >>>>
> >>>>Depuis un bon moment, je n_arrive plus a établir une connexion avec kppp
> >>>
> >>ou
> >>
> >>>>son pendant Gnome. J_ai installer la dernière version du pilote hcfpci
> >>>
> >>pour
> >>
> >>>>la Mandrake 2.4.8-26.
> >>>>
> >>>>Voici quelques informations sur ma configuration :
> >>>>Périphérique du modem : /dev/modem (pointant vers /dev/ttySHCF0).
> >>>>Contrôle de flux : CRTSCTS
> >>>>Terminaire de ligne : CR/LF
> >>>>Délais de réponse du modem : 10s
> >>>>
> >>>>Enfin, le pilote fonctionne très bien avec Minicom.
> >>>>
> >>>>Quelqu'un peut me dire pourquoi le pilote refuse de fonctionner avec
> >>>
> >>kppp ?
> >>
> >>>>Merci
> >>>>
> >>>>Pierre
> >>>
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