Silly question perhaps, but when you initiate the dialup, is the modem speaker on, and do you hear a brief dial-tone before the dialing commences? If not, then the prime suspect is the cable between the modem and the telephone socket. Tony On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 16:39, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 11.01.2005 schrieb Langer, Christian um 17:30: > > I installed an external modem on my Dell Pc and the the modem was > > recognized fine; but when I do the network setup, the modem dials the > > number fine, and then several seconds of silence, and then redials. This > > cycle repeats as long as you let it, but never connects My isp password > > and username are correct. Could this be an isp problem, or am I missing > > something? > > > > Chris Langer > > It would be helpful to see the corresponding syslog messages by pppd in > /var/log/messages. Easiest way to observe the syslog is to run "tail -f > /var/log/messages" in a terminal while in your case trying to dial in. > You may activate "debug" and "kdebug=4" for the pppd to get more verbose > output. > > Alexander -- Tony Dietrich ------------- "Card readers? We don't need no stinking card readers." -- Peter da Silva (at the National Academy of Sciencies, 1965, in a particularly vivid fantasy)
