> When I make a PPP connection between the Linux PC and the iPaq after about
> 20 seconds, the iPaq drops the connection. It displays a dialog box
> containing the error message : "Communications Error : Cannot connect to PC.
> The PC is unavailable or busy".
I think this happened to me when using a serial cable that didn't have
all of the flow-control wires (despite having set "flow control none"
in the CE setup). Which serial cable are you using?
To see if any PPP packets are happening, try adding 'debug' to the pppd
command-line options, and add the line 'daemon.* /var/log/daemon' to
your /etc/syslog.conf. Then try the connection again---various debugging
information will be written to /var/log/daemon. Come to think of it,
maybe the 'local' pppd option isn't appropriate.
> It is worth noting that my PC is also connected to a LAN.
You could try giving PPP some IP addresses that are in your LAN subnet
rather than the generic 192.168.1.0/24; I'm not sure whether this
would help.
Cheers,
Peter Monta
Received on Mon Sep 4 15:47:00 2000
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