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Re: Visual indication of modem connection.

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From: James Silverton
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:00
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Michael Hart wrote:
> 
> That's strange, On my SuSE 6.2 box pppd dies, and wvdial redials after a
> connection loss. Even authentication failures show in the wvdial window as
> "detected error ??? - password failure?".
>

This surely does not happen when Erols fails on password authentication.
Even dial-up networking in Windows just sits there and does nothing.
However, as I do have a display window there, I can cancel and try
again.
 
> Look in the SuSE help system for the entries to put into the pppd config
> file. there should be only 2 entries there.
> 
> lock
> debug
> 
> Link for this info:  http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/daniel_wvdial.html
> 
> I followed the article as I found it on my local box, and no problems with
> the wvdial connection. I still can't get KPPP to work on 6.2 though, I
> really miss the statistics box it has.
> 
> James Silverton wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed SuSE 6.2 in a dual boot arrangement using
> > Bootmagic. For the immediate future, my connection with the Internet is
> > going to be over a 56K modem with an ISP (Erols) whose contract has

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Deletions>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

As I posted earlier, wmifs does mostly solve the problem and I will keep
the suggestion of

lock
debug

for use later if necessary.

Thanks again,

Jim.
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From: James Silverton <jim.silverton@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Visual indication of modem connection.
Date: 1999/12/03
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