On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:37:20PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Jun 24 20:50:33 localhost pppd[2645]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Jun 24 20:50:33 localhost pppd[2645]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
This is apparently the culprit: seems like the serial line (or the modem?) is not correctly configured (line speed, data bits, stop bits, and whatever else there was).
I've seen this error message before. pppd gives some of the most useless diagnostic messages I've ever seen. pppd will give you a message about not being 8-bit clean/all bytes had bit7 set to 0 if it receives no data at all! It took me ages and ages to diagnose a dial-up problem. Eventually I figured out that I was getting the above error message because no data at all was being sent by the remote machine. My isp had changed the dial-up number, but either they'd left some modems answering on the old number (that would answer the line and never reply), or someone else craftily got that number and now has a bunch of ISP username/password pairs... Either way, try using a program like minicom to give commands directly to the modem which might help diagnose what is happening when you dial in. Extremely brief walkthrough (in case you don't know how to use minicom): type: ATDT(isp phone number) then presumably the remote end will ask for your username and password. If you successfully log in, then it should start ppp and print out lots of random characters/punctuation... John McPherson