Re: MTNL is anti-linux, it seems.

[Ninad Gupte <ninad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sourav,

A few months back I was in the same mess, connecting to MTNL with ISDN.
After a lot of emails to other linux users on the net, I got the solution
as this:
in /etc/ppp/options, add this line:
asyncmap a000

This should help you. 
Bets of Luck!

Ninad

At 04:24 PM 7/25/99 +0530, you wrote:
>From: Sourav Sachin <sachin@xxxxxxxx>
>To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Saturday, July 24, 1999 12:09 PM
>Subject: MTNL is anti-linux, it seems.
>
>
>>Hi !! guys,
>>I am really fed up with mtnl's server's behaviour.
>>pppd running on my linux-box is smoothly connecting to vsnl
>>account whereas gives errors when connecting to my mtnl account.
>>following are the relevant extract from my system log.
>>
>>Jul 24 09:57:16 dolphin pppd[623]: Serial connection established.
>>Jul 24 09:57:17 dolphin pppd[623]: Using interface ppp0
>>Jul 24 09:57:17 dolphin pppd[623]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
>>Jul 24 09:57:47 dolphin pppd[623]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>>Jul 24 09:57:47 dolphin pppd[623]: Connection terminated.
>>Jul 24 09:57:47 dolphin pppd[623]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
>>clean:
>>Jul 24 09:57:47 dolphin pppd[623]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
>>Jul 24 09:57:48 dolphin pppd[623]: Exit.
>>
>>I tried enabling pap then chap and all the combination. The connection
>>is
>>too moody. It connects whenever it wants and with the same settings does
>>
>>not connect the next time. However, it always connects when connecting
>>thru Microsoft Windows.
>>
>>Please check out if anyone of you have a stable solution for this
>>problem.
>>
>>Sachin (Metro CyberFax Services Private Limited).
>>
>>
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