On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 Gopi K wrote :

Hi all !

I have installed RHEL 3 on my machine. Installation has gone very smooth . Now , linux properly recognizes the modem .It takes it on port ppp0. i have entered the required parameters like my isp user name , password ... but when i click on Acttivate Button , it fails to activate and throws an error

"Failed to connect to tata with error 8"

here tata is my isp .

Please help,

Thanks in advance

Gopi Mumbai -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Hi Gopi,

You have not mentioned which modem you are using , However you can get connected to the net by going to your shell commandline and do the following 1) Create a file by giving the following # touch /etc/wvdial.conf 2) Next to detect your modem you can use the wvdial commandline tool # wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf 3) This will detect your modem , then go to the file you created that is by typing # vi /etc/wvdial.conf 4) In thgis file all you need to enter is you tata username and password , also you need to type in the phone number, save the file. 5) Next you need to type the following command # wvdial The Wvdial tool does detect your port and connection for you as mentioned above all you have to do is type the username / password /phone number given by tata All The Best

Thanks And Regards

Ryan Coelho.