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Article #1036Re: Visual indication of modem connection.
From: James Silverton
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:00
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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