an easy way to do this is to dial manually with minicom and then quit without resetting the modem and manually load pppd.(not sure what the command line options wuld be though maybe somene else can assist in that area)
nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mallar >I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a Mallar >complex chat script. Can someone help me out? Mallar > Mallar >Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal window Mallar >after connecting, so I can do the following: Mallar > Mallar >Login: <my user name> Mallar >Password: <my password> Mallar >Challenge: abc93029 Mallar >Response: Mallar > Mallar >[Here I take the challenge number above and key it into a card-like device. Mallar >It then gives me another number I need to key in as the "response". Then I Mallar >press F7 (Continue) to start the PPP session. Mallar > Mallar >How do I mimic this functionality in Linux? Mallar > Mallar >chat doesn't seem to be powerful enough. I can use SAY or REPORT to see the Mallar >challenge, but chat doesn't seem to provide a way to key in a number Mallar >interactively. wvdial doesn't seem to be capable of this either. Mallar > Mallar >Any thoughts? Mallar > Mallar >Thanks, Mallar >Jay Mallar > Mallar > Mallar >-- Mallar >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Mallar > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:32pm up 138 days, 2:28, 5 users, load average: 1.64, 1.60, 1.51
