At 05:59 2/4/00 -0600, Clifford wrote in response to my request for help in
transitioning to ppp with PAP:
>
>Connect with minicom but don't try to login and see if the ISP is starting
>PPP. PPP-speak appears as "garbage" characters, the first of which is
>always `~'.
This was the BEST idea put forth by anyone! I connected with minicom and got
gibberish - nothing like I had seen in other cases of working with ppp.
Recalling that I've had problems with the phone lines before, I dropped my
speed down to 19200(!) and tried again. Lo and behold, their system provided
a login text, but monitored for the ppp protocol. (If you try to login, they
just send a message saying you can't do that and they hang up.)
So, changing the options file to specify the lower rate, I tried again and
evrything went through as expected.
>
>Post exact copies the chat script and the pppd script.
>
>Post exact copies of the new chat logs when a suggestion doesn't work,
>something that may seem unimportant to you may be significant to others.
Right, sorry about that. You're right on both counts. I was just so
frustrated by the lack of support from my ISP that I 'lost it' for a bit.
By the way, I think you're understating yourself in your signature. You may
not be a guru by some definitions, but nobody can be a guru in all things.
Thanks for your knowledge and your willingness to share it!
Dave
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