OK. Your ISP expects to receive a standard login -- userid and password --
before starting the ppp connection on its end. PAP won't work. This is clear
from the hyperterminal results you report below (the stuff after you type
you password is what I previously referred to as the ppp "line noise").
I'm not familiar with "pon", but if it only supports PAP, you'll need to
find something that supports a normal login. The PPP HowTo (probably in
/usr/doc somewhere on your Linux host, and online at metalab) provides a
model script, ppp-on, that does this, instructing pppd to call chat to make
the call. The real key to this, though, is the chat script (on my system,
/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer), that provides the modem setup stuff I saw in your
earlier log posting, plus runs the exchange of userid in response to a
login: prompt, then password in response to a password; prompt.
At 07:15 PM 7/16/99 -0500, Debian Linux wrote [in part]:
>> 1. Have you made ppp connections to this ISP from some other computer?
>How?
>
>Nope have not but when i use windows hypertermal this is what i get
>
>
>PSINet
>
>
>Login:surf/debian
>Password:
> Entering PPP Mode.
> IP address is 38.27.247.238
> MTU is 1500.
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