Utter newbie problem w/modem

[codestorm]

Hey all .. I installed linux couple days ago, so am utter newbie.

After much frustration I gave up trying to get the internal ISA Hayes Accura 56k modem working - I'd looked it up on winmodem site lists and it was states as being OK, but I could never find an actual driver anywhere for it, so ...

I resorted to an old 28.8 external modem, which linux seems to find fine. However, after much fiddling of the sample setup from a book, I still can't get it to complete a connection. I'm close, but ..

I've got pppd spitting out debug stuff, and the first thing which seems to go wrong is a line like:

Peer is not authorised to use remote address 210.50.148.18

(which i assume is the IP my ISP is trying to dynamically assign me?)

A while after this (and assumedly because of this) it gives a

No network protocols running

error and tells the remote puter to hang up on me.

I've tried options like ipcp-accept-remote, ipcp-accept-local, and allow-ip 210.50.148.18 to no avail.

From memory (at work now) I've got noipdefault and defaultruote set in the options file.

Help!
codestorm
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[jaymzter]

what distro are you using? maybe you can use a gui prog like xisp, kppp, or rp3 to make sure you're not missing any options.

 

[codestorm]

i installed redhat 7.0 from memory, with no GUI's due to space restrictions. codestorm
Fire bad. Tree pretty. - Buffy
select * from population where talent > 'average'
You're not a complete programmer unless you know how to guess.
I hope I never consider myself an 'expert'.
<insert witticism here>