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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (209)	4/3/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

Just run the program "dip" which is in /sbin. dip -t -v will get you into interactive mode and you can feed it the settings by hand for your ISP's prompts. Make sure your /etc/ppp/options file is filled out correctly. Read the man page for pppd to get the options. Here's an example options file: ********** connect /etc/ppp/the_dialing_program_goes_here modem crtscts defaultroute debug /dev/modem 115200 asyncmap 0 ********** (without the asterisks, of course) Replace the second argument of the first line with the name of the script that actually dials the modem (will call the 'chat' program). Once you get the modem to actually dial, you can look at the output in your /var/log/messages or /var/log/ppplog to help debug the username/password xchange (if needed). Take out the debug line from your /etc/ppp/options after you have it working, or your logs will fill up much faster than needed. If you still need help, post the contents of your /etc/ppp/options, your ip-up script, and any other scripts that it calls (the chat script, for example) ---------------------------------------------------------- This file with changes for your ISP's "prompts", or the ascii messages it sends to you at connect time AND your personal info OF COURSE, will get you connected. Keep a script called [yourISP.dip] in /sbin and invoke it with "dip -v [yourISP.dip]". You do this from a terminal window as root. dip only works from root. If you have a hankering to try dip in verbose test mode (dip -t -v) then I will have to dig out what you tell it to gfet set up, some modem settings and the like. Hell you might even try the manual on the darn thing. The file you need--> (It is in /sbin actually) Message 6515905 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RTFM :) I would by Linux Secrets by Bakrakati or Linux Undercover (I.I.W.Y.)