Just been tearing my hair out with trying to set up a temporary system (using Suse!! - also Lighthouse Puppy) for a friend on dialup. Couldn't get wvdial to work, kppp was doing some strange things (including query modem not talking to the modem!). Eventually discovered minicom which enabled me to talk to the modem manually. Dialled Xtra ... fine and clear prompts coming back. Dialled slingshot ... couldn't make head or tail of what came back - reminded me of the results of mismatched send/receive speeds. Anyone got any clues. MS Windows connects fine, so that might be the only answer. Michael
Hi Michael, The only suggestion I have is if there is a "stupid" mode in the ppp configuration select it. I seem to remember doing that some years ago to get my dial up working. Regards John On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 00:28 +1200, Michael McDonald wrote:
Just been tearing my hair out with trying to set up a temporary system (using Suse!! - also Lighthouse Puppy) for a friend on dialup.
Couldn't get wvdial to work, kppp was doing some strange things (including query modem not talking to the modem!).
Eventually discovered minicom which enabled me to talk to the modem manually. Dialled Xtra ... fine and clear prompts coming back. Dialled slingshot ... couldn't make head or tail of what came back - reminded me of the results of mismatched send/receive speeds.
Anyone got any clues. MS Windows connects fine, so that might be the only answer.
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On 7 August 2010 09:20, John <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> wrote:
The only suggestion I have is if there is a "stupid" mode in the ppp configuration select it. I seem to remember doing that some years ago to get my dial up working.
I had tried "stupid mode" with wvdial, both under Lighthouse Puppy and Suses 11.3. It worked with Xtra but not Slingshot. Minicom is indicating a much deeper problem ... almost looks like send/receive formats are not matching ... nothing "legible" comes back! When I get time I'll post info from minicom - but I've got other things to right at the moment. Michael
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 09:46:48 +1200, mikencolleen(a)gmail.com wrote:
I had tried "stupid mode" with wvdial, both under Lighthouse Puppy and Suses 11.3. It worked with Xtra but not Slingshot. Minicom is indicating a much deeper problem ... almost looks like send/receive formats are not matching ... nothing "legible" comes back! When I get time I'll post info from minicom - but I've got other things to right at the moment.
Michael
Hi Michael, You might try some of the ppp options from this linux.net.nz mailing list email: http://www.linux.net.nz/pipermail/nzlug/2009-October/018205.html There is also two or three more mailing list threads about this that can be found with a google search of 'linux slingshot dialup', one of which mentions that if minicom prints back garbage when trying to create the connection that ppp is involved: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users(a)it.canterbury.ac.nz/msg27849.html Looks like slingshots dialup has been a common issue on linux. hth, Dean
On 7 August 2010 09:46, Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I had tried "stupid mode" with wvdial, both under Lighthouse Puppy and Suses 11.3. It worked with Xtra but not Slingshot. Minicom is indicating a much deeper problem ... almost looks like send/receive formats are not matching ... nothing "legible" comes back! When I get time I'll post info from minicom - but I've got other things to right at the moment.
Back home ... Here's the output from minicom. As you can see, Xtra (the first attempt) responded with a login prompt. Slingshot (second dial) responded with an unintelligible request. Any ideas? I've a suspicion one of the modem options may need tweaking ,,, but since this is only for a temporary solution, I don't want to spend too long trying them all. Welcome to minicom 2.3 OPTIONS: I18n Compiled on Jul 5 2010, 13:36:15. Port /dev/modem Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0 OK atdt087303030 CONNECT 57600 login: OK atdt087308880 CONNECT 57600 ~�}#�!}!.} }8}"}&} }*} } }#}$�#}%}&[c}9/}'}"}(}"��~~�}#�!}!.} }8}"}&} }*} } }#}~NO CARRIER Michael
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