ppp trouble on clean potato install [-v]
Hi people,
I decided to repartition my drives and install potato from scratch
using my hot-off-the-press CD set, but am now having problems
negotiating a PPP connection with my ISP under the new configuration.
Issuing "pon", the modem dials out, I/O LEDs flash briefly, then
nothing. Attempts to make an http connection fail with lynx giving
the standard message: "Alert: unable to connect to remote host".
So I installed minicom and tried walking through a terminal
connection. As expected, dial out and initial connection seem to
proceed well. The remote system requests and accepts my user id and
password and I am presented with the expected menu of remote-hosted
services. I can log in to the UNIX server, access my home directory,
run a pine session, etc.
The troubles surface when I choose the option to "start PPP".
Everything seems OK at the other end - I get a message: "Entering PP
session", then notification of my assigned assigned dynamic IP and
MTU numbers, followed by an encouraging-looking stream of garbage...
but after a short time the connection drops with a "NO CARRIER"
signal.
Here are the settings from /etc/ppp/options [egrep -v '#|^ *$'
/etc/ppp/options]:
asyncmap 0
auth
crtscts
lock
hide-password
modem
proxyarp
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
noipx
...and here is my /etc/ppp/peers/provider:
# This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.5.
#
#
hide-password
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"
debug
/dev/ttyS0
115200
defaultroute
noipdefault
user rossh
remotename provider
ipparam provider
Possibly it's some kind of authentication problem I don't understand.
I don't know whether or not this is relevant, but if I try to
manually start pppd during the interval before the line drops, then I
get the following message:
pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to
use to do so.
pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.)
Anyway, the connection drops whether I try to start pppd with no
argument, or with "noauth" or with "call provider".
Sorry about the length but I have no idea what's wrong or where to
look further to troubleshoot this. Under my old slink install it all
just worked. Any thoughts or pointers anyone?
TIA
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