Mic,
Again I am not sure that I understand your question.
To me at least, it seems like MArv and I have understood it very
differently, as he answers about using chat while you ask about
"multitasking" while wvdial (thus pppd) is running.
1-Is it clear to you that you must **NOT** interrupt wvdial. That is,
you should not "close the terminal" if terminal in your words means the
text window in which wvdial is running. If this is what you do, it stops
wvdial which in turn first closes pppd which in turn closes the
connection, and when all that has been done wvdial disappears from the
screen. CTRL-C is intended to stop wvdial when you do not need your
Internet connection any more. wvdial is just a convenient tool to start
pppd, the program which controls your Internet connection.
2-Would you please explain which command you want to use in
"multitasking" which does not work while wvdial ( -> pppd ) is
runnning? Have you ever typed the command
ps ax
to get an idea of how many multitasking modules are running?
3-Also, next time you write "the" terminal, can you please specify
which? You can have as many as you want, so it is not easy for the
reader to guess which one you have in mind.
Best regards - Jacques
mic wrote:
Hi and thanks again, sorry to be a pest.
* I read your suggestions and followed them to a T from the beginning.
* The error came with my Username through the ISP.
* When I was logging on in the 6.06, I used my Username of "mikrose".
* When I was trying to log on with 7.04, I used the same Username.
* However, when my isp returned a technical response to my question
about this problem, they told me I would have to use "mikrose@xxxxxxx",
instead of "mikrose". So that is what eventually worked.
To follow up: At this point, I can get on-line by entering "sudo
wvdial" in a terminal window...with the results:
mikrose@xxxxxxx
Password:
--> Looks like a password prompt.
--> Sending: (password)
Entering PPP Session.
IP address is 4.240.186.204
MTU is 1500.
--> Looks like a welcome message.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Sep 28 08:10:34 2007
--> Pid of pppd: 26766
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> local IP address 4.240.186.204
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> remote IP address 63.215.26.191
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> primary DNS address 209.244.0.3
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
--> secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4
--> pppd: �[08][06][08]�[10][06][08]
It just stops like this, and then I am able close the terminal. The
connection will hold and I am able to do updates or use the internet,
but any multi-tasking and it drops the connection. I can use the "sudo
wvdial" to get on again, but if I use "Network > Modem, configured with
my same isp information, it drops the connection immediately. In Help,
I see the following on adjusting the ppp connection:
│ Finished configuring connection and writing changed files. The chat
│
│ strings for connecting to the ISP are in /etc/chatscripts/isp, while
the │
│ options for pppd are in /etc/ppp/peers/isp. You may edit these files
by │
│ hand if you wish. You will now have an opportunity to exit the
program, │
│ configure another connection, or revise this or another one.
In "chatscripts" I see:
# This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.3.15.
# Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them.
#
# ispauth CHAP
# abortstring
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO
DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED
# modeminit
'' ATZ
# ispnumber
OK-AT-OK "ATDT8294055"
# ispconnect
CONNECT \d\c
# prelogin
# ispname
# isppassword
# postlogin
# end of pppconfig stuff
IN PPP PEERS, I see:
# This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 2.3.15.
#
#
hide-password
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/isp"
debug
/dev/ttyS0
115200
defaultroute
noipdefault
user "mikrose@xxxxxxx"
ipparam isp
So I am half-way there!
*******************************************************
Jacques Goldberg wrote:
> Mic,
> Congratulations.
> This mail item is deliberately off discussion.
> Please let's keep it between you and me.
> Please allow me one remark.
> As far as I could follow the multi-thread with you, I think that
reaching success has been painful and too long for you because you may
have been reading incompletely, if at all, and too quickly, the various
directions which we sent you.
> An example is item #6 of http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/wvdial.html
> on which you wasted a lot of time.
>
> Friendly yours - Jacques
>
> mic wrote:
>> Hello. I think you have done it, I am able to get on-line and the
connection stays on. Now I'll be able to download updates and get
things up to current status. I'll keep you posted. THanks again!!
>
>
