Finding information about dial-up failure

Forum: Networking
Topic: Finding information about dial-up failure
started by: lesliek

Posted by lesliek on Mar. 08 2006,06:34

I was running DSL from a flash drive. When doing so, I could dial-up to my ISP successfully.

I wanted to switch to running DSL from a frugal install. After a number of false starts, I was finally able to get that working satisfactorily.

I then tried to reproduce the dial-up configuration I'd been using successfully when running DSL from a flash drive. I wasn't able to do it, though, for the life of me, I can't see that I entered anything different from the information I'd entered before when it all worked.

I found in /var/log/messages some information about my unsuccessful dial-up attempts. Each attempt had the following history:

(pppd notice) pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
(pppd warning) Couldn't restrict write permissions to /dev/ttyS14: Read-only file system
...
(chat info) send (ATDT01980379000^M)
(chat info) expect (CONNECT)
(chat info) ^M
(chat info) alarm
(chat info) Failed
(pppd error) Connect script failed
(pppd info) Exit

I wasn't able to find any other source of information about what had gone wrong.

Is there some other source already available which has more detailed information about what went wrong?

Alternatively, is there some way I can turn on some monitoring device which would give more detailed information about what's going on?

Much, much later: after many hours spent trying all sorts of things to restore my connectivity, I found the problem. Various pages at my ISP's website give two different dial-up telephone numbers, one of which is wrong! The correct number is 0198 379 000, while the page from which I'd copied the number into the ppp configuration utility wrongly added a zero before the three. I suppose there must be some lesson in all that, but I'm not sure what.

My apologies for troubling people unnecessarily.