Re: US Robotics MessagePlus" always in auto answer mode

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.dcom.modems, in article
<4980a82f$0$30234$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Markus =??B?Ui4gS2XDn2xlcg==?= wrote:

Moe Trin wrote:

Yes, there are. But I cannot see any *working nntp server that
provides *http access, that is *read _and_ write, that has the *needed
groups. Maybe such servers exist, but it's hard to find them.

Depends on what you mean by "needed" groups. Have a look at that
www.dmoz.org page. If you're looking for 'text' newsgroups, "all"
news servers should carry the 2291 official "Big Eight" groups listed
monthly in a posting to news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and
news.lists.misc on the 15th of each month - title "List of Big Eight
Newsgroups". Beyond that, many public news servers carry 20-100
thousand groups. The "free" ones tend to not carry the binary
groups because of bandwidth problems.

Inquire why port 119 is being blocked. Some entities block it
because of abuse, and get unhappy if the firewall is bypassed.

Some companies try to "intercept" their employess and this is easily
achieved by forcing any network traffic through only one proxy.

Their computers - their rules.

Thanks alot - well, after that the modem was permanently in
"non-message" mode, i.e. it did not answer calls automatically,
neither when the workstation is running or not.

You can always restore message mode by using the 'AT&F0' init string
instead of 'ATZ'.

But, then kppp (the internet dialup deamon in Mandr* Linux) couldn't
make a proper connection any more...

What error message?

The log is as follows:

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */

# Creatix / Netsurf:
[...]
CONNECT 115200/REL
# This my older modem. It's just 33k6, but it still works.

OK - the modems have established a connection. That says nothing about
whether a ppp connection was established.

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */

# USR / Netsurf:
ATZ
OK
ATM0L0
OK
ATDT0191122
CONNECT 46666/ARQ

The modems say they've established a V.90 or V.92 connection with v.42
error corrections - that fine.

# Connection timeout. No internet connection possible any more.
# I've no clue, why this happens.

The modems are establishing a connection, but kppp apparently doesn't
want to tell you anything - one reason I don't like those tools.

Add the pppd options 'debug dump' to kppp. Make a _copy_ of the file
/etc/syslog.conf for safe keeping, and edit the original to add the
line at the end of the file

daemon.=debug;local2.=info /var/log/ppp.debug

(that's a tab, not a bunch of spaces). Use the 'diff' command to
verify that the only change to that file is the addition

diff /etc/syslog.conf .etc/syslog.conf.original

The output of the 'diff' command should be something like

14a15
>daemon.=debug;local2.=info /var/log/ppp.debug

If diff shows anything else changed (some editors will ``help'' you by
line wrapping - that's a no-no), copy the original file back over the
changed one, and try again. Once this line has been safely added,
restart the system logging daemon with

killall -HUP sysklogd

and then place the call. This change will cause pppd (the daemon
kppp is ``helping'' to run) to show all the debug messages. Post that
log. You can then put the "original" /etc/syslog.conf file back,
and again restart the logging daemon.

That causes trouble with kppp. It waits for certain messages which
either do not come or they come twice...

Details ? ppp is a _relatively_ simple program to set up.

Assuming /etc/ppp/*ap-secrets has the correct username and password,
and /etc/ppp/options is either empty or you can TEMPORARILY move it
out of the way,

/usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" ATZ OK ATDT0191122
CONNECT /d/c ' /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug nodetach crtscts modem
defaultroute user dimke.fax@xxxxxx

That's all one line - replace the username with the correct value the
ISP is expecting (and that matches the entry in /etc/ppp/*ap-secrets).
When you run this command as root, it should dial the modem, and
connect to the ISP. Note that this does NOT change the nameserver
data in /etc/resolv.conf, so you have to make sure that is correct
manually. This command will also stay running in the terminal you ran
it from until you press the left Ctrl and 'c' key at the same time in
that terminal - which brings down the ppp connection. (Comment: 161
characters/bytes plus the size of /usr/sbin/chat - about 16 kbytes
total - it's a bit smaller than kppp.)

Old guy
.

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