Hello all,
It seems that many are having difficulty connecting and staying
connected using a modem. It appears as though there are two seperate
problems.
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As far as connecting is concerned, it looks like pppd isn’t
authenticating properly. The pppd shipped with RtP should support both
PAP and CHAP. The online docs appear to be out of date in this regard.
When in doubt, refer to the docs distributed with the release. -
The second phenomenon is the connection breaking prematurely.
Some people have complained that the dialer keeps trying to dial even
when they close it. This is the autoconnect feature: when any
application tries to connect to a site, the resolver will execute a
script which in turns lauches dialer. Whats happening here is after you
close dialer, someone - say voyager, attempts to reconnect to a site,
and has it launch again. You can turn this off by checking the
‘disable autoconnect’ option.
If possible we’d like a few people having problems to run dialer -v
and dialer -d (for debug). It will print out the spawn options to stderr
when you connect. It will also launch pppd in debug mode which will have
it print more verbosely in the terminal window. Please post the terminal
output, and the stderr output. (plz post to this thread)
How do I post the output if I can’t connect, you ask? If you have a
linux or windows partition, you can copy the output there, reboot and post
it from the other os.
ex:
phdialer -v > /tmp/phdialer.out
phdialer -d >> /tmp/phdialer.out
{ try to connect, copy contents from terminal, exit }
ped /tmp/phdialer.out
{ paste }
cp /tmp/phdialer.out /fs/hd1-dos/phdialer.out
Note: check the output for any sensitive info before you post it
(username, phonenum).
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Shaun Sauve
QNX Software Systems