No Dialtone

[Kowood]

In Kppp, when I try to connect, it says my modem is ready, but when it starts initializing, it gives me a no dialtone error. What's wrong here? I made sure that the noauth part of the configuration was uncommented...

[tdjokic]

kppp -> configure -> Modem -> uncomment "Wait for dial tone"

[Kowood]

Okay, now it dials, but it stays on the Logging On To Network....For a minute or so, and then gives me a pppd error (exit status 2).


Apr 30 16:38:43 This pppd[3761]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Apr 30 16:38:45 This pppd[3761]: Exit. That's the pppd error.


ATZ
OK
ATM1L1
OK
ATX3
OK
ATDT6365395
CONNECT 49333
And that's the Kppp log. In man pppd it says that exit status 2 is something to do with two exclusive something-or-others...man pppd and go down to the exit status things.

[fingers99]

It says:

2 An error was detected in processing the options given, such as
two mutually exclusive options being used.


Now, I don't like kppp. Try pppconfig and then pon (to start) and poff to disconnect (all from the command line, although, if it works, I'll show you how to put little icons up to run it).

[Kowood]

Nope. I went pppconfig and enter the info for my ISP (GWI) and then tried pon...nothing happened....then pon GWI....then nothing happened....Then i tried it from kppp....still the same errors...

[fingers99]

Nope. I went pppconfig and enter the info for my ISP (GWI) and then tried pon...nothing happened....then pon GWI....then nothing happened....Then i tried it from kppp....still the same errors...

Hmmm.

Check /etc/group

you should have entries like:

dialout:x:20:kowood

dip:x:30:kowood

(it's the user name that's important)

and try again. Hell, try it as root (just as an experiment!)

(you might try pon provider, too..........)

Failing that, you'll have to post all the entries you made in kppp and hope that someone can spot what's going wrong.

[Kowood]

Works fine in root. I'm posting this from my root session. The only working in root might have something to do with the fact that only root can run slmodemd....the daemon for my modem...

[tdjokic]

Maybe this will help: go to usr/bin/kppp as root, than look at permisions and change this one: Exec for user.

[Kowood]

Nope. I think my problem might be that when I try to start the slmodem daemon as user, it says that I'm denied permission to sched_setscheduler or something similar to that.

[fingers99]

Did you check /etc/group ?

If you did, and you are in the diallout and dip groups, then you probably need to change the ownership of the modem daemon.

This is a really strange -- and to my mind -- potentially dangerous thing to have to do, but you may have to do just that.

[Kowood]

yeah...I checked /etc/group...it's fine...and i made the daemon executable to all users. how do i change the ownership?

[Kowood]

Hmm. I ran kppp as root from the user account and it works fine. Im posting from user right now.