Re: Two Problems
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:12:02AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
| 2) My second problem is one that my ISP administrator cannot solve.
| Until last summer, I could get onto the internet with any version of
| linux that I tried. Typical of what I get now is what I get with
| wvdial (same thing happens with RedHat):
|
| Connect
| Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
| PPP daemon has died
| pppd error.
|
| My ISP administrator says that when he uses linux with his computer through
| the modem that serves my area, he gets connected. He seems to want to blame
| my computer. Since I have no trouble with Windows and even Beos worked when
| I tried it, I cannot see how it can be my computer.
My suggestion would be to try minicom. It is a modem dialer, but it
gives you a sort of interactive prompt. That way you can see exactly
what your modem/ISP is responding with. I used it to figure out the
exact sequence of send/reply pairs to use with chat. It works quite
well.
Once you get the modem to dial properly and chat authenticates you,
you need to get pppd configured right. I found through trial and
error what to use for PAP authentication options.
HTH,
-D
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