Gil,
I had a very similar problem with my US Robotics V.Everything external
modem. This may sound insane, but my problem seemed to be related to modem
initialization strings.
There is a setting someplace in Windows for its dialer that makes it create
a log file when it dials the modem. One of the things that it puts in the
log file is the initialization string that it sends to the modem. I'm
sorry, but I forget exactly where the setting is (I have been using DSL for
some time now and my modem is gathering dust on the shelf :-) ). Look
through the properties for your dial-up connection. I believe that the log
file is created in the \windows subdirectory.
The way I got it to work with my modem was to take the modem initialization
string (it starts with AT and has a bunch of letters and numbers and symbols
like "&", "%", #" in it - please forgive me if you already knew that :-) )
from the log file and plop it into my wvdial configuration file so that it
used the exact same initialization string as Windows. There might be more
than one line in the log file. Check the wvdial documentation for more info
on how to modify its configuration file if you're not sure.
That might not be your problem, but it was what worked for me.
As an aside, I believe that whether you need to use PAP or CHAP is
determined by your ISP, not Windows. I believe that most of them use PAP,
though. I could be mistaken.
I hope that helps you out.
Best regards,
Tom Delany
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wright" <d.wright@open.ac.uk>
To: "Gil Elad" <gilelad@netvision.net.il>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: ppp mystery
> Quoting Gil Elad (gilelad@netvision.net.il):
>
> > 1. I tried connecting using Minicom at different speeds ranging from 19
to
> > 38 kbps without success.
>
> "Without success" doesn't mean anything in this context.
> I'm not necessarily expecting you to make a connection.
>
> Your modem ought to work at 115200 bps - that's the speed between
> the PC and the modem, and is nothing to do with the eventual
> speed of the connection (49k in windows).
>
> So, what happened when you dialled the number. I take it you got
> that far? Does the other end answer? Without your telling us these
> things, we can't help you at all.
>
> > One thing I did notice when reading the pppconfig man page is that
support
> > for mschap is not yet available, at least not in the version I'm using,
> > which is the one that came on the distribution CDs. I don't know how
> > relevant that information is, since everywhere I look in Windows seems
to
> > indicate that it authenticates itself using PAP, but for some reason I
have
> > an inherent mistrust in M$. I guess I'm just funny that way :)
>
> That's still irrelevant. You will find out about authentication when
> you are successfully swapping LCP with the other end. Your logs showed
> only one-way traffic and nothing from the other end.
>
> Cheers,
>
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