[work] mwave wont dial out was Re: [ltp] Help installing with mwave.

James Mckenzie linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
06 Feb 2003 19:26:16 -0700


Jim:

Where can I find the Gnome ppp graphic interface?

James Mckenzie

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 15:56, iriXx wrote:
> yes.... i used to have this happen under mandrake 8.2, and a restart 
> would set things right....
> 
> i've tested mwaved under gnome ppp now as well as kppp, and its 
> definately not the ppp dialer that has the problem... the problem has to 
> be mwave....
> 
> i'm still having the same symptoms, the module and daemon loads fine, 
> but kppp freezes at 'Initialising modem'. under gnome-ppp i got the 
> message 'The ppp daemon died unexpectedly'. theres nothing in particular 
> in my logs that show any problems with the driver... logs seem to show 
> the driver loading okay....
> 
> one problem i have noted - does anyone else get a load of shell script 
> spewing up the screen when they do mwaved restart? i had a look at the 
> script b(/etc/rc.d/init.d/mwaved) but couldnt see anything obviously 
> wrong... there are a lot of echo commands in it tho, it seems to be 
> echoing half the script instead of running it....?
> 
> thanks
> m~
> 
> Jim Harvey wrote:
> > 
> > I have noticed that usually when Mwave seems not to work, a restarting 
> > brings it to life.
> > On my Redhat 8, as root type,
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mwaved restart
> 
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