Roger Oed wrote:
Hi,
Sorry about the lack of detail. It is an external model on COM port 1 (ttyS0) and I have tried a couple. The one I am using at present is a dynalink one. I have tried configuring it using the Network Configuration tool and while it appears that I have been able to activate the PPP link, I don't think it has in reality. How important is an initialisation string for the modem?
Init string shouldn't matter; the modem defaults are usually fairly sane anyway. How far through the connection does it appear to be getting? Since it's an external check that you have "OH" and "CD" lighting up, also you should see RD and SD blink a few times. IF it doesn't hang up right away (CD/OH going off again) then you're probably logging in OK and the next thing to look at is routing or DNS. If things don't light up, you need to make sure that the modem device is definately /dev/ttyS0 (usually Redhat will make a link /dev/modem which is a shortcut to /dev/ttyS0 and use that for all the settings) /var/log/messages and /var/log/pppd should contain more clues. The other option is bring it along to a meeting.