[SOLVED] dial-up problem f17

[nsnbm]

I have a problem with dial-up internet connection on fedora 17. Unfortunately
I live in a rural area where dial-up is my best option. On fedora 16 there was
no problem with dial-up.

In fedora 17 I used system-config-network to set up the modem and write all the
relevant files. I amended the configurations, to allow user control of the modem
etc. The configurations that I used were the same as those which worked perfectly
for fedora 16, and earlier fedoras. I amended the files:

/etc/wvdial.conf
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-IspProviderName

I checked the pap-name and chap-name files and all the files in /etc/ppp/peers and
they were all in the same state as for fedora 16.

On starting the dial-up, the modem was intialized, but then the error message was:

Child process /usr/bin/wvdial --remotename IspProviderName --chat 'IspProviderName' (pid 3795)
terminated with signal 6

On investigation, this problem with wvdial seems to be part of the bug at:

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812651

In that bug report a problem with libwvstreams was reported which seems to explain
the error message which I received, and also suggested that a libwvstreams in rawhide
for fedora 18 had amended the error. However, there is also a response in that bug
report that indicates how the libwvstreams in rawhide won't install on fedora 17. My experience
is the same as that report ... libwvstreams-4.61-5.fc18.i686.rpm wont install on my
fedora 17 and I get the same error message as the respondent mentions in the bug report,
that is, failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.10 and libssl.so.10. I have installed the updated
openssl for fedora 17 which I understood to include the libcrypto.so.10 and libssl.so.10 files,
but that made no difference to the error messages.

I considered uninstalling libwvstreams for fedora 17 and replacing it with libwvstreams for
fedora 16, but rpm wouldn't let me do that because of dependencies, and I am reluctant to
use force, and it doesn't seem like a good idea anyway. I don't run a desktop environment other
than a window manager and prefer to use the command line tools directly.

I tried to connect by using wvdial directly with the command:

wvdial IspProviderName

The modem initialized, followed by the error:

wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:409: static void WvTaskMan::_stackmaster(): Assertion `magic_number == -0x123678' failed. Aborted.

My question is, what can I do about this problem?

[angryfirelord]

A post from another forum indicates that wvdial is broken with that version: http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PN...wtopic&p=15112

Yum has a downgrade function which will allow you to go down to a lower version. I don't know if you'll need to add the F16 repos to do that. Yum downgrade doesn't resolve dependencies, so you'll have to downgrade those as well. If you're not sure what should be downgraded, post the output here.

There's also an alternative to wvdial that some people recommend: http://umtsmon.sourceforge.net/

[PabloTwo]

If the "yum downgrade libwvstreams" doesn't work, and it probably won't, you can grab the F16 version from koji and manually install if the dependency chain doesn't make that impossible. BTW, F16 uses recycled F15 versions of wvdial and libwvstreams, in which case you might need to pair that up with the F15/16 version of wvdial.

BASH:~/-> grep Fedora /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 16 (Verne)
BASH:~/-> rpm -q libwvstreams wvdial
libwvstreams-4.6.1-3.fc15.x86_64
wvdial-1.61-4.fc15.x86_64

[nsnbm]

Thanks angryfirelord and PabloTwo,

The yum options aren't viable at this point for me because they overwhelm my current dial up, but the info on wvdial is very good to have. I shall look into the downgrading process more, but at my present level with the problem, rpm is not letting me do things nicely. Meanwhile, I'm hanging in with f16. Ben..

[george_toolan]

Do you really need this wvdial or can you just connect with pppd and a simple chat script like in the old days?

[nsnbm]

Thanks george_toolan for that excellent suggestion which sent me back to writing a ppp-on-dialer script to log in to my ISP. However, an update, libwvstreams-4.6.1-6.fc17.i686.rpm, has appeared in the repository and has resolved the issue allowing wvdial to do its work. Thanks for all the guidance and help from everyone in the thread. Ben.

[oystercatcher]

I havent used dial up for a few years but this is a script that I used for a few years.
after pppd is started you should get the login prompt. Resolv.conf also needs to have the
dns server address. I should probably break out the 19.2k modem to verify these details
down the road.

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#!/bin/sh

pppd debug kdebug 1 /dev/ttyS0 115200 defaultroute &

sleep 4

ifconfig -a

dig opendns.org


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