John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Larry writes: >> The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried >> to change the phone number and now it won't connect. > >*Exactly* what did you do? *Exactly* what results did you get?
1) My provider changed its phone number, so I ran pppconfig to change the phone number and pressed <enter> on everything else. (I know that only the phone number was changed, because I use a DOS offline reader with the same provider and that's all I had to change.) 2) When I ran PON I immediately noticed the following problem with PAP authentication, so I thought I might have accidentally selected PAP instead of CHAT when I changed the phone number. Feb 20 20:36:04 debian pppd[216]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="ay903" password=""] Feb 20 20:36:04 debian pppd[216]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x30fe74d6] Feb 20 20:36:05 debian pppd[216]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 "Invalid Login"] Feb 20 20:36:05 debian pppd[216]: Remote message: Invalid Login Feb 20 20:36:05 debian pppd[216]: PAP authentication failed 3) I ran pppconfig again and made sure to select CHAT this time and pressed <enter> on everything else. But this had no effect, because when I ran PON again the same PAP authentication message appeared. I have rerun pppconfig numerous times being extremely careful to enter everything correctly and I still get the same PAP authentication message. >> I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the >> defaults and start over, but when I ran pppconfig the defaults were >> still there. > >What do you mean by the defaults? The default valuse displayed by >pppconfig are not read from a file. They are generated internally by >pppconfig when the provider files (/etc/chatscripts/provider and >/etc/ppp/peers/provider) either don't exist or don't look right. I thought pressing <enter> on all of my previous defaults except for the change from PAP to CHAT might be causing pppconfig to think that nothing was changed, so I was trying to get rid of my defaults and start over. >> What files should I delete to get pppconfig back to where it was when I >> first installed hamm? > >When you first installed hamm the ppp package installed a set of default >files. Pppconfig ignored these and showed you its defaults. It then >replaced the files installed by the ppp package with those it generated >when you answered the questions. > >Look in /etc/chatscripts and /etc/ppp/peers for files named 'provider.bak'. >Depending on exactly what you did, these files may contain your data. >Rename each of them from 'provider.bak' to just 'provider' and run >pppconfig again. If you are lucky your old data will come up. If not you >will have to enter it all again. I'm pretty sure there was only one provider.bak file in /etc/ppp/peers and I must have accidentally deleted it. But this is not a problem, because after I deleted all of the pppconfig files reentering my information was easy. I just have no idea why changing the phone number with pppconfig would cause a login failure? When I started using Debian a few months ago I thought pppconfig was the easiest part of the whole installation. Larry Fletcher Redondo Beach, CA USA P.S. Here's my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file: # This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines # but please do not delete lines or the change the comments or you will # confuse pppconfig. noauth #pppconfig_noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" #pppconfig_connect debug #pppconfig_debug /dev/ttyS0 #pppconfig_dev 115200 #pppconfig_speed defaultroute #pppconfig_route noipdefault #pppconfig_ipdefault user ay903 #pppconfig_user # End of pppconfig controlled lines. You can add lines below here without # confusing pppconfig.
