Re: Data Calls - No Carrier

[Warren Flemmer]

> From a quick glance, it looks to me as if your service provider is not
> letting you (normally) use RLP version 0 (which hasn't got V32
> compression).  The XID discussion above seems to get 'stuck' on Ver 1. 
> Although they should be backwards compatible to ver 0 a couple of other
> people have had this problem as well.  I'm afraid there's probably nothing
> you can do except check a different physical position (perhaps the base
> station is different?) or write some compression support.....
>
> I'll try and do compression support at some point - but it's unlikely to be
> before the summer - and last time I checked, orange here in the uk didn't
> support mode 1.....

I am not sure I understand properly. Are you saying the server side is 
causing the error
or the base station? The server side I can do something about (its at 
the office), the base
station is beyond my control.

The servers I am dialing into are linux portslave and do not have ppp 
compression support
(some license nonsense regarding this can be found in their archives). 
The purpose for
the datacall support is to allow for some admin without having to need a 
land line. The
current modem banks are only used for testing and in the end I will set 
up an separate
access point only for this function. So I am not limited to the current 
config on the server
side (answer side), I can setup whatever works (within reason).

I know ms ras supports ppp compression and some modems like the USR 
courier-I's, support
ppp compression internally (do not require compression code on the 
server). Has anyone setup
a server side that works with gnokii. I do not want to go the MS route, 
but this functionality
is important enough to me that I will if required, and the resources are 
available to me. The
courier modems are very expensive and their use in this situation would 
not be economically
viable (probably cheaper to buy a new phone than one of these modems).

Can anyone suggest a server side config that should work with gnokii, or 
have I missed the
point?

Thanks
Warren