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Mandrake 8.1 and Modem/ISDN dail up probs

  • 31-10-2001 11:29pm
    #1
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭


    Hi all.

    I'm having a few probs with mandrake 8.1 , ppp/getting my TA to dail out.


    1) PPP domain ends so it wont connect. I think I may have fixed this, as I'm connected now but as root (bold me)

    ps... I'm on a manul connect at the moment, not using X-tool's

    2)Internet Dialer will connect to esat SNL, it can be pinged and I can see the incoming packets, but it can not send :(

    3) Mandrake picks up my TA (asus) It takes me to a network setup screen and asks me for my number, my ISP, their number and so on. I enter it all in and ok it, it then askes me do I want to connect at boot, so I say no. It then askes me do I want to connect now, so I say ok......it then brings up a network monitoring tool and times out. Any one got any Ideas?



    PS......do not take it that I think Mandrake 8.1 is crap as it is not :) any system that can auto find my USB webcam/Sidewinder joy stick and set it up workes for me.........it also has xawtv installed for me :D
    (saves me 10 min.........for watchen TV)


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  • #2
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Any one got any Ideas?

    Yes get slackware muha.

    You can ping the server but can you ping another server or a domain name, say yahoo.com?

    If no then you could be looking @ adding the ip addr of your isp as a dns in /etc/resolv.conf

    for example say something like

    domain ms_ßux
    nameserver 194.145.128.1

    or I could be wrong?
    If you can send icmp out then you should have tcp & udp too right? so...... humph I dunno?


  • #3
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭sutty


    TA!

    but I got the Modem working ok now, but I'm still having the same prob with my ISDN.


    It is picked up by mandrake, but it wont dial out :/

    it askes me about which tools I want to use.

    ISDN-lite or ISDN-4-net

    but I cant find then anywhere.....anyone know of them and how to use them?


  • #4
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭sutty


    Ok, as it turns out I'm still having a modem prob.


    its seams that when-ever I shut down or reboot my computer, too get the modem to send out packets, I need to log in as root, configure PPP in the network conf and then dial up. Then disconnect and log out, then log in as my user and it will work again. This has to be done every time I say go into win2k to play a game of CS or something like that.

    any Ideas?

    ps........loging in as my user first and going to network conf (witch askes me for the root password) will not work :confused:


  • #5
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    This modem are you using an external or a software modem which is supported in LInux.

    Also you are saying that you have the same problem in 2k as in Linux right?, therefore if it is an internal modem I would say you probably have an IRQ conflict , but even that sounds dubious I guess.

    Still if you have the same problem cross-platform then it MUST be hardware correct?


  • #6
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭sutty


    It's an external modem, I'm not hhaving any probs with in in win2k, this is a solely linux prob. I've done many reinstalls of the Mandrake OS over the past few day (for different reasons) but every time, I get this prob.


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  • #7
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Oh.

    Ermm could I suggest you simply use KPPP to dial the internet in Mandrake? If you have the modem connected to com1 in windows then, if you were to issue this command as root
    chmod -v 777 /dev/ttyS0
    and
    ln -sf /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem
    chmod -v 777 /dev/modem
    and now try accessing either ttyS0 or /dev/modem from kppp and simply run a query on the device?
    Hopefully this may fix any permission issue with the com port and wean you away from the Mandrake config scripts, and if you simply use KPPP to dial the internet you should have no problems ok?

    Also if you want to use an ISDN modem then get the init strings from windows and supplant them with the default init strings in KPPP as these init strings are probably default 56k modem strings and may not work right if you are trying to initalise an isdn modem, righteo?

    Good Luck


  • #8
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭sutty


    ok, I got the modem working grand now. In the end it wasn't anything to do with permissions. For some reason it (mandrake) wasn't making a default route everytime I connected my modem to the internet, so I did a add route 192.168.0.3 subnet auto detected 194.145.0.0

    (please note the 192.168.0.3 is my network address, but the modem is on the same box) for some reason it worked and still is.

    I seen some doc's on how to get ISDN working over on Mandrake user :eek:


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