Re: Re. Total confusion
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:04:42PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> | On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:15:23PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
> | > More information.
> | >
> | > I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all
> | > dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet.
> |
> | Sounds like a configuration problem with the dialer. pppd should
> | log some stuff, which is accessible with plog. What do they say?
>
> No, his dialers are just fine. He said they dial and get connected to
> his ISP. That is the first step. Now you need to figure out how to
> make a PPP connection on the line that has just been dialed.
>
> Have you read the PPP-howto?
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html
>
> What I did was use minicom interactively (AFAIK that's the only way to
> use it) to determine what to expect from my modem/ISP when I dialed,
> and what to send in response. I then wrote a chat script (easy,
> really, once you have the info from minicom) and spent a fair amount
> of trial-and-error time getting the pppd configuration file to work
> with my ISP.
>
> The chat script is in /etc/pppd/providers/. There is a sample one
> there you can start with.
This is what I meant. I thought the dialers configured the chat
scripts for you.
He may be using the wrong login method (PAP or CHAT or whatever), or
the wrong login/password, which should show up in the logs.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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