Re: Actius MM10 modem

From: Jerry Peters (jerry_at_example.invalid)
Date: 06/20/05

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    Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:09:07 GMT

    Jim <james@the-computer-shop.co.uk> wrote:
    > jan.a@gmx.de wrote:
    >> I am trying to make the modem of the Sharp Actius MM10 notebook work
    >> with Redhat Linux.
    >> The modem driver seems to work, since up to CONNECT everythingseems to
    >> work:
    >> ATZ
    >> OK
    >> ATMIL1
    >> OK
    >> ATDT1000
    >> CONNECT 34666 V42bis
    >>
    >> Then however Kppp fails, telling me that "pppd exited with return value
    >> 16".
    >> Did anyone succeed to get the modem working on this laptop, or any
    >> ideas what is going wrong?
    >> Some log messages are attached below.
    >> Thanks in advance!!
    >>
    >> ---
    >>
    >> Jun 17 16:26:12 localhost pppd[4627]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
    >> Jun 17 16:26:12 localhost pppd[4627]: Using interface ppp0
    >> Jun 17 16:26:12 localhost pppd[4627]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
    >> Jun 17 16:26:30 localhost pppd[4627]: PAP authentication succeeded
    >> Jun 17 16:26:30 localhost pppd[4627]: kernel does not support PPP
    >> filtering
    -----------------------------------------^
    Didn't anyone notice this? You need to either enable ppp packet
    filtering in the kernel, or disable packet filtering in pppd. I had
    the same problem and chose to rebuild pppd without packet filtering.

            Jerry
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