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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!arg-home.net-tel.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd fails to dial modem Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:45:53 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <822537953.5209@arg-home.net-tel.co.uk> References: <4e3lkg$2mh@access4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg-home.net-tel.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg-home.net-tel.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dcmyers@access4.digex.net X-URL: news:4e3lkg$2mh@access4.digex.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) wrote: >Can anybody help me understand why pppd (or, more precisely, the chat >script I invoke on the pppd command line) fails to dial? Basically what >happens is that the modem (a 28.8) seizes the line, so that I can hear dial >tone, but then is quickly cut off. It never gets a chance to dial. The >On-Hook and Carrier-Detect lights just go out. Is this a cabling problem? >I know on Macintosh systems that I've configured (including Macs running >MacBSD), you need a special high-speed serial cable to handle DTR/CTS. Do >PCs also need special cables? Right now, I'm using a straight-through >DB25-to-DB25 cable. Straight-through 25-25 cables are what you want (with at least pins 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 20 wired) >All my chat script does is: > >"" AT >OK atdt2539500 You need to wait for "CONNECT" after this. Modems take *any* character typed after the dial command to mean 'abort this dial attempt', so in your case the chat script is exiting and pppd is starting to talk PPP, the first character of which trips the modem - all of which happens before it has managed to dial the first digit.