The serial loopback error occurs when the pppd program tries to execute before a connection to the remote server is completed. In order to elimiate this problem be sure to place the following in your chat script.
CONNECT 'CONNECT' \
regards lilo ----- Original Message ----- From: Kinjal Sonpal kinjalsonpal@zeenext.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] pppd error no. 17
Parul Mathur wrote on Thursday, October 18, 2001
I have a Motorola SM56 PCI Fax Modem (internal). I am using the
driver
given in the PCQLinux 7.1 distro (sm56-85.1-10.i386.rpm). I
have
checked that the modem is working properly.
I also have the same modem and same driver installed on SuSE 7.1. It used to work great untill last week. Since last week or so, I'm also getting the same message while connecting. My ISP is Roltanet and I'm using wvdial for connecting to the net. I also tried connecting using Kppp, but as expected it also detected serial loopback. I also have the same question, what is serial loopback? Some times, if i dial in as a root, then I used to get connected, but since last couple of days, even that has also stopped.
Btw, for allowing all the users on my home PC system, chmoded /dev/modem to 777. Is this okay or is there some better workaround? I did this becoz I read somewhere in our mail archives that one shud not dial-up as root for the sake of security reasons.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Warm regards, Kinjal Sonpal