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- From: hoggy@coretech.com (Brian)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Staying Online
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 00:05:11 GMT
- Organization: MY place
- Message-ID: <4dpbjn$5te@homer.alpha.net>
- References: <4dlqnt$hgp@bud.shadow.net> <30FE7930.1B87@topcity.mn.org>
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-
- on Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:45:36 -0600, Michael M. Rye (1726@topcity.mn.org) wrote:
- : Paul Cubillos wrote:
- : > Everytime I crash or have to reboot I loose carrier on the modem. Yes I know
- : > that a AT&D1 will keep the modem online without dropping carrier. But when I
- : > try to get back online with the modem the script I have just sits there. Here
- : > is a copy of my script. If someone could please give me a example of what
- : > supposed to be in the script, I would appreciate it!!
- :
- : Paul,
- : It's probably not a scripting problem. I assume by what your message says
- : that you already figured out how to keep your modem online in case of a crash,
- : so I won't tell you how to do that.
-
-
- FINALLY, someone who says he knows it's not a scripting problem!!!!!!!!
-
- : What you need to do is check your modem device configuration. In the
- : case of using PPP, check the ppp0.config (or whatever it's called) file for a
- : "CD" parameter. Make sure it's there. This tells PPP to check for a carrier
-
- Now here is where you have lost me, probably Paul, any most likely a decent
- number of other Amigans too. I have been seeing this about making sure
- you have 'at&D1'(or whatever) to keep the carrier. FINE!, we all can keep the
- carrier after a reset! Next, I always see to make sure we have the 'CD'
- option set. Hopefully by now, we *ALL* have that in our ENV:Sana2/ppp0.config
- file.
-
- : before executing the dial script. Apparently, yours is not checking for a
- : carrier first, and executes the dial script anyway. This in turn causes
-
- I can't speak for others, but even if I issue JUST the *online* command FROM
- the 'startnet' script through a shell -- kaboom, it hangs up.
-
-
- --
- Can ***SOMEONE!*** help us with this problem? With my unregistered AmiTCP,
- starting up after a reboot was no problem, but ever since I got my
- registered version I cannot,for the life of me, get it to start up after a
- reboot!!!!!!! (maybe I should UNregister!?! :-)
-
-
-
- (please forgive me, Michael, I know you were just trying to help out,
- but it's just that Iv'e heard this over and over and over again. Please
- don't take what I've said personally -- I'm just too lazy to start my own
- thread :-)
- --
-
- AMIGA 4000/040/18M--1.5G + 150M Bernoulli + SOON to be JAZZ drive(disks are *MUCH* cheaper!! :-)))
- (DKB4091 SCSI-II controller)
- ONLINE with a Pratical Peripherals 'PC288LCD', and a dedicated 'no frills' phone line.
- Using registered AmiTCP 4.2 and reg. PPP1.40beta.
-
- "I don't wanna go to work, I don't wanna go to school, I don't wanna eat, sleep, or think. All I
- wanna do is surf ----- DA NET!!"
-