Re: ppp question maybe on-topic

[judith <judith samson usaserve net>]

Hey Mike,

What other messages are you getting before "serial line looped back?"
At first glance, that sounds like a modem configuration problem. 
It must be a high-level configuration problem, because if there were a
problem with your serial port, nothing would work. Hmm.

Does the modem ever successfully dial out, or does it die before it
connects?
Does pppd ever get started?

When you say, set up the scripts as in the HOW-TO, did you manually
enter
/etc/resolv.conf
pap-secrets/chap-secrets
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
/etc/hosts
and your chatscript?

What's in your chatscript?

Does wvdial work?

Looking in the /usr/doc/ppp*/README.linux:

do you have a /dev/ppp file?

Also, there's a linux-ppp mailing list 

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Judith


> Following a hard disk failure I installed mandrake 7 in place of a much
> modified Redhat 6.1. Since then  cannot get my ppp scripts to work they are
> basically as in the ppp howto and worked in RH6.2 (no kde)

> 
> The modem starts to dial and then dies after about five seconds the final
> message being "serial line is looped back".
> 
> I am starting to  suspect that it may be a mandrake/kppp issue because if I
> set up ppp in netcfg (ifup) it works and kppp works as well.
> 
> Unfortunately I dont really want to continue using either of these methods
> so has anyone ether came across this problem or have any ideas.
> 
> In addition to andrake 7 I am using gnome 1.1.8, gtk/gdk1.2.7 ppp-2.3.11
> and kernel 2.3.99pre5 (it doesnt work with the stock kernel loaded either)
> 
> The on;l other error message I get is to do with var/log/messages saying no
> ppp loaded in the kernel which is fairly ipossible as
> 1. It is compiled straight in
> 2. ifup or kppp would not work either
> 
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