Thank you, i will follow your suggestion and try it out. I have been reading the wvdial man pages, but find that I do not have the "vocabulary" need to understand enough of it to help Regards Chris T
PS can you expand on why I should add these lines? CT On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 21:37 +1300, John Rye wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:59:04 +1300 > chris wrote: > > > Can you explain please what is the difference between the ordinary > > wvdial mode and stupid mode > > I am assuming that gnome ppp uses chat? > > Gnome-ppp uses wvdial, the preferences tab allows you to enable 'stupid > mode' is you need to use it. > > I suggest that, regardless of your distribution, you insert the following > into your etc/ppp/options file (you need to do this as root/superuser) > > > lock > noauth > defaultroute > ipcp-max-configure 65 > ipcp-accept-local > ipcp-accept-remote > idle 600 > > These options have always > John
