Connecting to KOL with dialup
I set up a user with a trial of Ubuntu, an external modem, and a KOL connection. (Would be lovely to have broadband, but in this situation broadband is "not on"). Dialup seems to be changing! I had a few problems during testing connecting to Xtra (see http://wlug.org.nz/Xtra ) ... Xtra's prompts upset wvdial. I thought "Oh well, if I can get Xtra to connect, I ought to be able to get KOL to talk using the same technique". Trying the usual methods of connecting didn't give any joy, so I used putty to find out what was happening. Name and Password was fine, but then KOL responded with a binary string, repeated every second or so, 6th byte incrementing, for a while and then disconnected. The string is ... ff 03 c0 21 01 dc 00 12 01 04 7f d5 03 04 c0 23 05 06 77 2d 1d b1 (dc was the byte that incremented with each message) Is this familiar to anyone? I haven't rung KOL as the website claims no support for Linux, and I wouldn't expect normal help-desk staff to be able to answer that query anyway. At worst, I've donated, $10 to KOL! Now that the user has the computer, I've got to set up another one for testing. :-) (Not a problem!) Any suggestions? Michael
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:52:25 +1300 Michael McDonald wrote:
I set up a user with a trial of Ubuntu, an external modem, and a KOL connection. (Would be lovely to have broadband, but in this situation broadband is "not on").
Dialup seems to be changing! I had a few problems during testing connecting to Xtra (see http://wlug.org.nz/Xtra ) ... Xtra's prompts upset wvdial. I thought "Oh well, if I can get Xtra to connect, I ought to be able to get KOL to talk using the same technique".
Trying the usual methods of connecting didn't give any joy, so I used putty to find out what was happening. Name and Password was fine, but then KOL responded with a binary string, repeated every second or so, 6th byte incrementing, for a while and then disconnected. The string is ...
ff 03 c0 21 01 dc 00 12 01 04 7f d5 03 04 c0 23 05 06 77 2d 1d b1 (dc was the byte that incremented with each message)
Is this familiar to anyone? I haven't rung KOL as the website claims no support for Linux, and I wouldn't expect normal help-desk staff to be able to answer that query anyway. At worst, I've donated, $10 to KOL!
Now that the user has the computer, I've got to set up another one for testing. :-) (Not a problem!)
Any suggestions?
Try setting your /etc/ppp/options like this: ===== lock noauth defaultroute ipcp-max-configure 65 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 ===== This works for me John
On 21/Mar/09 09:52 , "Michael McDonald" <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I set up a user with a trial of Ubuntu, an external modem, and a KOL connection. (Would be lovely to have broadband, but in this situation broadband is "not on").
Dialup seems to be changing! I had a few problems during testing connecting to Xtra (see http://wlug.org.nz/Xtra ) ... Xtra's prompts upset wvdial. I thought "Oh well, if I can get Xtra to connect, I ought to be able to get KOL to talk using the same technique".
I've got a debian machine connected to KOL that I had similar issues with - in the end I crafted a kol peers file in the /etc/ppp directory, and connect using pon kol. (I just place a menu item in to make it easy) --- kol file --- name kol connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/kol" usepeerdns defaultroute 115200 noauth /dev/ttyS0 user "/replaceuser here/" --- end --- --- chat scripts file --- TIMEOUT 60 ABORT ERROR ABORT BUSY ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" "ATZ" "" "AT&FH0L3" OK-AT-OK "ATDT087305656" TIMEOUT 75 CONNECT --- end --- Also needed is an entry in the secrets file to store the password against the username. I did try to configure it all through the gnome GUI - but the results were very ... Inconsistant. HTH. Warren.
2009/3/21 Warren Boyd <wazza(a)clear.net.nz>:
I've got a debian machine connected to KOL that I had similar issues with -
Thanks Warren and John for your suggestions. I'm not sure if I failed to test all the common ways of setting up, but I found that using pppconfig, then pon kol, poff for connection and disconnection did work ok. The failed methods (ie those that didn't work straight off) were kppp, gnome-ppp and wvdial. Next task is to tweak /etc/X11/xorg.conf and get a higher resolution than 800x600. Michael
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com>wrote:
I've got a debian machine connected to KOL that I had similar issues with
2009/3/21 Warren Boyd <wazza(a)clear.net.nz>: -
Thanks Warren and John for your suggestions. I'm not sure if I failed to test all the common ways of setting up, but I found that using pppconfig, then pon kol, poff for connection and disconnection did work ok. The failed methods (ie those that didn't work straight off) were kppp, gnome-ppp and wvdial.
Next task is to tweak /etc/X11/xorg.conf and get a higher resolution than 800x600.
Michael
pppconfig was the only dialer that I ever had any lock with as well
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