[PLUG] Simple external modem configuration

Tom Dana tomd at spiritone.com
Wed Mar 20 05:14:03 UTC 2002


tomd here:

quick newbie kind of question.

running mandrake 8.1

adding an external modem SmartLink 5634TS to serial port 1.
CMOS has serial port set to COM 2.
/dev/modem is pointing to ttyS1.  OK so far.

While trying to make a dial-up connection, modem gets initialized, ATDT is
delivered, the connection is made, but pppd times out after 30 seconds.
Error message of 'Timeout expired while waiting for ppp interface to come
up."

The rpm for pppd v. 2.4.1 is loaded, but pppd doesn't seem to be coming up
after the connection is made.

Error logs look like this:

Error messages from first internet connection attempt:

Mar 17 17:38:40 lintom pppd[10086]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Mar 17 17:38:40 lintom pppd[10086]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 17 17:38:40 lintom pppd[10086]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Mar 17 17:39:10 lintom pppd[10086]: Terminating on signal 15.
Mar 17 17:39:16 lintom pppd[10086]: Connection terminated.
Mar 17 17:39:16 lintom pppd[10086]: Exit.


Error messages from second internet connection attempt:

Mar 17 17:44:04 lintom pppd[10173]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Mar 17 17:44:04 lintom pppd[10173]: using channel 4
Mar 17 17:44:04 lintom pppd[10173]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 17 17:44:04 lintom pppd[10173]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Mar 17 17:44:04 lintom pppd[10173]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
<magic 0x6ce8bb51> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Mar 17 17:44:34 lintom pppd[10173]: Terminating on signal 15.
Mar 17 17:44:34 lintom pppd[10173]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User request"]
Mar 17 17:44:37 lintom pppd[10173]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "User request"]
Mar 17 17:44:40 lintom pppd[10173]: Connection terminated.
Mar 17 17:44:40 lintom pppd[10173]: Exit.

What's preventing pppd from coming up??

TIA,

tomd








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