Re: Still PPP probs.

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, John Wilkinson wrote:
>sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
>Hi all,
>I am still having trouble with the speed of my intenet connection. I
>tried everything that Martin told me, but still the speed is so slow.
>The IRQ is the same as windows, and yet still windows is fater.

Had another idea. Some modems need weird init strings rather than just ATZ.
Does yours perhaps? I believe you can find this out by recording a log in
windows when you connect. Also you could try to find your modem at

http://www.mindspring.com/~net_amigos/modems/

>Anyway, to prove a point, I tried another free ISP, newsientist.net.
>When I dial in I dont get a login prompt, as with virgin net. All I gat
>is a long streem of rubbish.
>Does this mean this ISP uses CHAP or PAP, if so what do I do now.
>
>I am using KPPP, so how do I set it up?
>
>I tried selecting the PAP and the CHAP options in KPPP but to no avail,
>have I missed a vital step?

Yes this means they are using PAP or CHAP. Did you type your username and
password into the front widget? kppp needs to run as root to write the
pap-secrets or chap-secrets file so

chmod u+s `which kppp`

What errors do you get? kppp will report what's in /var/log/messages but this
is usually not very detailed so I suggest increasing the level of logging like
this. Add the lines

local2.* /var/log/ppp
daemon.* /var/log/ppp

on the end of /etc/syslog.conf and then restart it with killall -HUP syslog

Add debug to pppd arguments or put it in /etc/ppp/options.

Now try again and see what is reported in /var/log/ppp. If you post it here we
can try to interpret it but make sure you blank out any passwords that occur :-)

atb
Martin
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph

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