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Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

kppp configuration

A couple of issues here:

I have created a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS1 and then used the 'Query modem' feature in kppp. It connected to the modem (flashing lights an'all) and created the dialup script. From this point on kppp has been unable to connect to the modem  :?  Even following the query process, it cannot find the modem.

On reboot the /dev/modem device no longer exists, I have to recreate the link again.

Any light on the above issues would be very helpful.

Thanks.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: kppp configuration

Are you using a special modem driver package (ltmodem, slmodem, etc) or just the kernel driver?

About the disappearing symlink, you'll need to create a udev rule to make it permanent. This one is taken from the ltmodem PKGBUILD (I haven't tested it so it may not work):
Create a /etc/udev/rules.d/modem.rules file. Put

KERNEL=="ttyS[0-9]", NAME=="%k", MODE=="0660", GROUP=="tty", SYMLINK+="modem"

in it.

Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: kppp configuration

Are you using a special modem driver package (ltmodem, slmodem, etc) or just the kernel driver?

About the disappearing symlink, you'll need to create a udev rule to make it permanent. This one is taken from the ltmodem PKGBUILD (I haven't tested it so it may not work):
Create a /etc/udev/rules.d/modem.rules file. Put

KERNEL=="ttyS[0-9]", NAME=="%k", MODE=="0660", GROUP=="tty", SYMLINK+="modem"

in it.

I am not using a winmodem. It is a proper hardware modem. It has been successfully used with various incarnations of Mandrake and Slackware (though similar problems arose with Slackware 10.2, which I guess is the udev issue).

Thanks for the udev pointer for the symlink. I just need to sort out why the device is being so temperamental.

Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: kppp configuration

Snowman,

The udev fix works a treat    Thanks.

Unfortunately the modem doesn't  :cry:

I am thinking of installing wvdial to see whether I have any success there. I just don't get it though, having set-up many machines over the years using kppp, it has been a real pig recently.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: kppp configuration

Are all the required modules loaded?
Does the order that these modules are loaded matters? The new udev loads modules in parallel so it might break things. If that's the case, post the modules and the order they need to be loaded.

Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: kppp configuration

Here we go then:

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ehci_hcd               33160  0 
usbhid                 48928  0 
usblp                  11904  0 
usb_storage            75072  0 
uli526x                16788  0 
ppp_generic            28052  0 
slhc                    6656  1 ppp_generic
irtty_sir               5632  0 
sir_dev                14924  1 irtty_sir
irda                  127928  1 sir_dev
snd_intel8x0           30620  0 
snd_ac97_codec         95136  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2176  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_mpu401              5576  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         6784  1 snd_mpu401
snd_rawmidi            21152  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_oss            33408  0 
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snd_page_alloc          8840  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
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soundcore               8160  1 snd
crc_ccitt               2176  1 irda
nvidia               4084912  12 
shpchp                 44768  0 
pci_hotplug            26692  1 shpchp
parport_pc             26436  1 
serio_raw               6148  0 
pcspkr                  2052  0 
analog                 11040  0 
ns558                   4996  0 
gameport               12424  3 analog,ns558
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i2c_ali15x3             7044  0 
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i2c_ali1535             6532  0 
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rtc                    10932  0 
ppdev                   7812  0 
lp                      9860  0 
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ali_agp                 5888  0 
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reiserfs              269424  0 
jfs                   192636  0 
ext3                  133256  2 
jbd                    58132  1 ext3
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sata_promise            9092  0 
sata_sil24              9604  0 
sata_nv                 7044  0 
sata_mv                16516  0 
sata_vsc                5892  0 
sata_via                6404  0 
sata_uli                4996  3 
sata_svw                5764  0 
sata_sx4               12292  0 
sata_sis                5892  0 
sata_sil                6916  0 
mptfc                   5508  0 
mptspi                  6280  0 
mptsas                 13196  0 
mptctl                 22912  0 
mptscsih               33680  3 mptfc,mptspi,mptsas
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megaraid_mbox          31888  0 
megaraid_sas           25516  0 
megaraid_mm            10020  1 megaraid_mbox
ata_piix                7812  0 
osst                   54944  0 
sym53c8xx              82068  0 
atp870u                30208  0 
aha152x                37712  0 
aic79xx               271832  0 
aic7xxx               182196  0 
ahci                   10756  0 
pdc_adma                7940  0 
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nsp32                  26132  0 
aacraid                58112  0 
ipr                    64032  0 
imm                    12040  0 
parport                33736  4 parport_pc,ppdev,lp,imm
3w_xxxx                27680  0 
tmscsim                21952  0 
dc395x                 36752  0 
3w_9xxx                32388  0 
a100u2w                10304  0 
BusLogic               24756  0 
sr_mod                 15652  0 
qlogicfas408            6792  0 
st                     38816  0 
sg                     31648  0 
dmx3191d               14080  0 
qla6312               115200  0 
qla2322               134400  0 
qla2300               124672  0 
qla2200                87168  0 
qla2100                79488  0 
qla2xxx               129500  5 qla6312,qla2322,qla2300,qla2200,qla2100
lpfc                  157628  0 
scsi_transport_sas     15232  1 mptsas
qla1280               119436  0 
sd_mod                 15744  4 
ide_floppy             18048  0 
ide_cd                 39428  0 
cdrom                  38688  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ide_disk               16000  0 
via82cxxx               9092  0 [permanent]
trm290                  4228  0 [permanent]
triflex                 3456  0 [permanent]
slc90e66                5376  0 [permanent]
sis5513                15624  0 [permanent]
siimage                11392  0 [permanent]
serverworks             8712  0 [permanent]
sc1200                  6656  0 [permanent]
rz1000                  2560  0 [permanent]
piix                    9732  0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_old           10240  0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_new            8704  0 [permanent]
ns87415                 4040  0 [permanent]
it821x                  8068  0 [permanent]
hpt366                 18560  0 [permanent]
hpt34x                  4608  0 [permanent]
generic                 4356  0 [permanent]
cy82c693                4356  0 [permanent]
cs5530                  5120  0 [permanent]
cmd64x                 11164  0 [permanent]
atiixp                  5520  0 [permanent]
amd74xx                14364  0 [permanent]
alim15x3               11404  0 [permanent]
aec62xx                 6784  0 [permanent]
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