Configuring ppp for an IPWireless modem

[Jeff Mutonho]

I recently installed Fedora Core 5.

dmesg| grep 'usb' log shows that my modem is bound to node
/dev/ttyUSB0 as shown below :

usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [PS/2+USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:02.0-1
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
IPWireless converter
usb 1-2: IPWireless converter converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new driver ipwtty
drivers/usb/serial/ipw.c: IPWireless tty driver v0.3

 I created the  the 2 scripts :

/etc/ppp/peers/sentech

noipdefault
/dev/ttyUSB0
115200
defaultroute
usepeerdns
hide-password
lcp-echo-interval 60
lcp-echo-failure 3
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/sentech"
noauth
persist
mtu 1400
user "myusername"
maxfail 0
deflate 15

and

/etc/chatscripts/sentech

TIMEOUT 30
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "BUSY"
ECHO ON
SAY "Dialling sentech...\n"
"" \rAT
"OK-+++\C-OK" ATH0
OK ATZ
OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"PPP","sentech.co.za","myusername","mypassword",0,0
OK ATD*99#
SAY "WAiting up to 30 seconds for connection ..."
CONNECT ""
SAY "Connected.."



Thereafter , I ran "pppd debug call sentech" , checked the
/var/log/ppp directory for logs.The only log present ,called
connect-errors had :
"Dialling sentech..." and nothing else.

What am I doing wrong?




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Jeff  Mutonho
Java/J2EE Developer
mob    : + 27 82 907 6420

GoogleTalk : ejbengine
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