On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:06:37PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | OK, I didn't realise that you wrote pppconfig... this will be a bit vague, | as I do not have access to my Linux box (I'm at work!), but here is | basically what happened. | | 1) Ran pppconfig, it appeared to set up everything without trouble. | | 2) Used pon to connect, modem dials, tries to authenticate, fails and hangs | up.
Ok, your modem is fine. All you need to do is figure out how to authenitcate with your ISP. My recomendation is to use minicom to manually dial and work through the prompts your ISP sends back and the proper response you should send to them. This is essential. Then edit the chat script (probably /etc/chatscripts/provider but I can't find the right file on this system and it would take a long time to boot the 486 that does the dialing, this box has ADSL now) to contain these "expect-send" pairs. Since your modem works all you need to do is configure the dial-up authentication (which is done using chat) and pppd (you may need to provide a user/password for PAP). The other programs (eg wvdial, pppconfig, etc) all try and make this easier, but I like to get right into it and see exactly what is happening so that I can make it work right. BTW I have never seen Debian fail to connect except when (a) I screwed up the chatscript or (b) the ISP's server went down and refused to authenticate. MS Windows on the other hand ... -D
