ISDN Connectivity problem
Simon
box, data number 01952333xx to Demon (or anyone else).
The box is a Debian testing machine which has been working since May.
To rule out software I tried the box I use to use before May (with
same PCI ISDN TA) and it produces indentical results - so confident it
is not a software change this end that caused the problem.
The connection to Demon was dropped at 00:05 AM Friday, having been up
since October 23rd.
Attempts to connect to 08440416672 via Digital connection give a "NO
CARRIER" error.
Attempts to connect to 08440416672 using analogue line give me a
promising modem like noise after one ring.
Attempts to connect to 08452120667 using Digital line get me "LOGIN
INCORRECT" after it submits the password. The password echoed in the
log this end is correct (I'm using it now with a 56K modem), and was
changed to rule out the password having suddenly become incorrect.
Currently it is configured to use "Chat" style password authentication
this end.
Attempts to connect to UKFSN via ISDN, causes the hisax driver to emit
an lldata_handler unknown primitive 0x232", but I never had a working
connection to them via ISDN before, so this may be unrelated. Google
finds a handful of references to this error message - most unanswered
:(
I'm trying to source another of the old BT Speed PCI TA to rule out a
hardware fault on the TA, however I'm unclear why such an error would
give different errors for different phone numbers?
Assuming I finalyl get my hands on another Speedway PCI TA - and the
problem remains what then?
I also tried to use the ST5481 USB TA built into the HH box, but so
far with no success. I'm unclear on steps to take after loading the
hisax_st5481 driver, and I can't find any clear examples of this
being down under Debian.
BT are saying "everything tests okay".
Demon are saying "we only support Windows and MacOS", or in one case
"click on the start button"<sic>.
Any ideas what may have changed, or what might be broke?
Jim Crowther
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:59:56, Simon wrote:
>I'm trying to source another of the old BT Speed PCI TA to rule out a
>hardware fault on the TA, however I'm unclear why such an error would
>give different errors for different phone numbers?
I have a couple lurking in a box somewhere nearby, email me if you want
to pursue further. (Reply-to works.)
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Jim Crowther "It's MY computer" (tm SMG)
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Iain M
"Simon" <ace-h...@zywave.co.uk> wrote in message
news:f9358746.04111...@posting.google.com...
> Having problems getting a working ISDN connection at all from a BT HH
> box, data number 01952333xx to Demon (or anyone else).
> Any ideas what may have changed, or what might be broke?
Looks like Demon ISDN is Broke..
I cant get on either, via HH on Win XP.
Iain M
"Iain M" <newsg...@gabhsann.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2vq5uhF...@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "Simon" <ace-h...@zywave.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:f9358746.04111...@posting.google.com...
>> Having problems getting a working ISDN connection at all from a BT HH
>> box, data number 01952333xx to Demon (or anyone else).
>>...
>> Any ideas what may have changed, or what might be broke?
>
> Looks like Demon ISDN is Broke..
>
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
newsg...@gabhsann.demon.co.uk "Iain M" wrote:
Are *you* anywhere near Simon (who appears to be in the Telford area)?
Because I have had absolutely no problems here at all, calling from 01367
245xxx (that's Faringdon, between Swindon and Oxford). [Using OS/2, with
a proper TA, not USB, on proper ISDN2e, not Highway.]
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"I don't use Linux. I prefer to use an OS supported by a large multi-
national vendor, with a good office suite, excellent network/internet
software and decent hardware support."
Simon
Analogue to 0844 numbers is fine here, just digital is the problem.
Okay you are in the Western Isles? So unlikely to share a lot of
telephone infrastructure with East Devon... apart from presumably lack
of ADSL <sigh>.
David G. Bell
newsg...@gabhsann.demon.co.uk "Iain M" wrote:
g5 was working fine all weekend, from here. Including a very large
download overnight and a new call at 7:24 Monday morning.
My usual connections appear to be via Warrington.
--
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"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."
Simon
>
> Are *you* anywhere near Simon (who appears to be in the Telford area)?
Damn - typo - my phone should have read 01395 - East Devon. There is
only one exchange in East Devon not ADSL enabled, I'm tempted to go
visit them this lunchtime and see if they changed anything recently,
since it is a stones throw from my house.
I guess I could just throw stones instead ;)
I assume Iain is in the western isles, somewhere north of Stornoway -
so not very close from a UK perspective, although in the cosmic scale
of things....
Simon
> newsg...@gabhsann.demon.co.uk "Iain M" wrote:
>
> Are *you* anywhere near Simon (who appears to be in the Telford area)?
Yikes Google takes a long while to update this group...
Additional to me being in Devon, interestingly BT mentioned an
exchange fault Friday, when quizzed on the topic.
Sent me off to speak with Speedway support, which appears to be a
computerised menu whose soul purpose in life is to tell you to dial
other numbers?!
I've really had my fill of BT computerised telephone menus. Surely
destructions of these things is justifiable under any fair legal
system?
Jeff Gaines
> b...@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) wrote in message
> news:<20041115.01...@dsl.co.uk>...
> > On Sunday, in article <2vq5uhF...@uni-berlin.de>
> > newsg...@gabhsann.demon.co.uk "Iain M" wrote:
> >
> > Are you anywhere near Simon (who appears to be in the Telford area)?
>
> Yikes Google takes a long while to update this group...
>
> Additional to me being in Devon, interestingly BT mentioned an
> exchange fault Friday, when quizzed on the topic.
>
> Sent me off to speak with Speedway support, which appears to be a
> computerised menu whose soul purpose in life is to tell you to dial
> other numbers?!
>
> I've really had my fill of BT computerised telephone menus. Surely
> destructions of these things is justifiable under any fair legal
> system?
Blunkett's on to it, he's going to introduce a new version of an ASBO
for them :-)
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Andy
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Iain
> Okay you are in the Western Isles? So unlikely to share a lot of
> telephone infrastructure with East Devon... apart from presumably lack
> of ADSL <sigh>.
Yep, Western Isles it is... ADSL is coming in July 05 though, praise be to
BT.
Demon is working fine tonight though, on my Proper USB connection to my
Proper HH box :-)
Might have been some kind of local telecom issue, and just coincidental with
your problems.
Cheers,
iain
Simon Waters
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Iain wrote:
|
| Might have been some kind of local telecom issue, and just
coincidental with
| your problems.
Okay I have my Demon 0845 working. Someone might have mentioned it
uses different authentication, and compression to the 0844 number ;)
Or is it all just magic blackboxes from here on in....
The 0844 just refuses to party - nothing - zip - NO CARRIER.
I seem to be paying by the minute again --- argh.....
Anyway 1191 emails to go - and I'm out of here.
This seems like a new twist on an old theme.
0844 connectivity is fine via analogue, shagged via Digital.
BT admit a fault was logged with the exchange this morning my
problems started.
This must be a BT fault, or the Demon interconnect I think?
My other problem seems to be configuring an analogue modem - either
I'm too out of practice, or I'm missing something subtle - "no dial
tone". I will find a known good external modem at work tommorrow and
try again, but hopefully BT will pull their finger out and fix it
tomorrow anyway.
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