pppd refuses to start after modem handshake

Igor Gueths igueths at comcast.net
Mon Aug 18 13:17:06 EDT 2003


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Hi there. Thanks Greg, I have since sorted out the problem and now have
PPP working properly.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi Igor and all.
>
> I've been going through the messages posted while I was down in July
> for a few weeks.
> I didn't see a reply to this.
>
> In your /etc/modules.conf you need to put a line like "alias
> tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async", which will cause the ppp_async.o module to be
> loaded.
>
> Hth.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 03:14:39PM -0400, igueths at comcast.net wrote:
> > Hi all. I am attempting to get PPP to work on my girlfriend's box with
> > little luck. I got her Lucent Winmodem to work because I happened to find a
> > driver on linmodems.org that works with that modem. So far, I've gotten the
> > modem to dial out to the ISP, however pppd refuses to start. The modem
> > properly establishes a connection, however wvdial or pon fails to start
> > pppd. I got the following in syslog and am not sure as to what it means.
> > Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> > Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3
> > Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline:
> > Invalid argument
> > Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: Exit.
> >
> >
> > I am not sure what module pppd is looking for. Perhaps I need to compile
> > something into the kernel that I neglected to? Currently running Debian
> > 3.0R1 with kernel 2.4.20. The only item related to PPP which is set to yes
> > in .config is CONFIG_PPP. The connection I am attempting to use was
> > configured via pppconfig, so as far as I know /etc/ppp/pap-secrets,
> > /etc/ppp/peers/provider (connection name) are fine. And just to make sure I
> > checked the PPP howto for proper syntax and everything seemed fine. Note
> > that I do not have Speakup currently installed on this machine because
> > there is no synthesizer available. Therefore, my girlfriend is reading me
> > the screen. Also, I have not successfully set up a PPP connection, so I am
> > not sure as for what to look for that characterizes a successful
> > connection. I am using the standard PPPd/chat pair to set up this box as
> > the PPP client. Does anyone know why I am getting this error and/or how to
> > resolve it? Thanks!
> >
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