[ILUG] Linuxcare BBC CD and PPP

[Niall O Broin]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:34:45AM +0100, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:

> Probably due to pppd on Debian being configured to do the dialling itself. I
> was bitten by this a few years ago. You need to specify some option such as
> nodial in the pppd config files (can't remember them offhand ...)

in answer to my original question of 

> Have any of you who got a Linuxcare BBC CD tried to connect to an ISP with
> it yet ? I just tried the other day (my boot drive was giving me gip, and I
> needed to read my email) and had no joy. I copied the /etc/wvdial.conf and
> /etc/ppp which I use every day, and wvdial connects OK but then says the
> pppd has exited with error 1, and that I should look in the logs. As the
> BBC doesn't run to a syslog, this is a bit difficult. As one of the major
> practical changes planned for the ILUG BBC CD is ready configuration for
> the Irish ISPs, this is a bit of a setback :-)
> 

I've looked in the ppd manual and have seen no mention of such an option,
and I've run strings on the ppd executable on the BBC for the word dial but
found nothing relevant. In the boot messages from the BBC I see

PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.

(here is a ppp_deflate module in /lib/modules) 

whereas in the boot messages on my box I see 

PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
registered device ppp0
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered

although I wonder what is the device ppp0 - I don't have a /dev/ppp0 device.
Is this ppp0 device like eth0 i.e. a virtual device which doesn't exist in
the filesystem ?


Further ideas heartily welcomed :-)



Regards,


Niall