Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
Send a PAP auth request. If they deny it, shutdown the line. :) NO! Servers supporting it will also deny it. Instead, reply (as said) with a NAK to the PPP Configuration_Request. And in fact this is correct. If an authentication protocol should be used is pretty much the choice of the

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-09-04 Thread Laurens Holst
The primary site is here: ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ Various components of this package have different licences (GPL, BSD, other). Anyway, I'll send the file directly to Laurens. Just to avoid questions like "how do I unpack .tar.gz?"... ;) Bwoa, WinZIP does that. But you

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-09-04 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
I know. But maintaining an assembly code is hard. I am a Z80 assembly programmer. Except for that I hardly know how to code C (on an MSX), I chose Assembly because I have absolutely no idea how fast the MSX is exactly when it's about modems It follows the golden rule: You

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-30 Thread Laurens Holst
I like to add that a lot of (Belgium) ISP are using CHAP, or even worse MS-CHAP (Again one of the changed standards I was talking about in a previous mail) Oh, never heard of it. Get pppd code and read the file MSCHAP80. Wouldn't know where. Just don't send a Auth Protocol

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-30 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Get pppd code and read the file MSCHAP80. Wouldn't know where. Any Linux site. pppd is GPL, if I'm not wrong. I got the source on my Slackware CD. Send a PAP auth request. If they deny it, shutdown the line. :) NO! Servers supporting it will also deny it. Instead, reply (as said)

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-30 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote: Get pppd code and read the file MSCHAP80. Wouldn't know where. Any Linux site. pppd is GPL, if I'm not wrong. I got the source on my Slackware CD. The primary site is here: ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ Various components of this package

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-29 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Laurens, I like to add that a lot of (Belgium) ISP are using CHAP, or even worse MS-CHAP (Again one of the changed standards I was talking about in a previous mail) Oh, never heard of it. Get pppd code and read the file MSCHAP80. Just don't send a Auth Protocol Request

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-29 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Laurens, Well, you have to worry about HDLC That's simple. It's already implemented. (and about flow control when you access the drives) That's even simpler: no data while accessing drives. MSX will do the job. Some ISPs still do authentication via SLIP. At

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-29 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote: I don't know very well about it. What I've seen is only text-authentication servers. So, that's arise a question: how you know an ISP authenticates by text or by PPP? Checking if the first block sent by the ISP is a PPP packet or text data? If

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
3. How to make the modem dial and establish a connection send init string: ATZ OK This "OK" isn't sent by the modem itself??? It is. and then dial: ATDT0123456789 CONNECT 115200 And also this "CONNECT"? It is sent by the modem (actually the ATDT and the ATZ too since it's

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-27 Thread Laurens Holst
*SNIP discussion about PPP, sLIP and PAP* I like to add that a lot of (Belgium) ISP are using CHAP, or even worse MS-CHAP (Again one of the changed standards I was talking about in a previous mail) Oh, never heard of it. Anyways, my ISP also requests the use of CHAP by default, but if you

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-25 Thread Maico Arts
Hello 1. How to start a serial connection with the modem (what are the serial parameters of the modem: speed, stopbits, flow control, parity) Pfff... Use the standard settings: 8N1, and make the speed configurable (you can also set it to the max. speed for simplicity's sake. However I do

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-25 Thread David Heremans
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: send init string: ATZ OK This "OK" isn't sent by the modem itself??? and then dial: ATDT0123456789 CONNECT 115200 And also this "CONNECT"? Yes, that is part of being hayes compatible. Now you are connected to

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-24 Thread Laurens Holst
Hi, MSXers, I'm needing help from someone who has experience with external modems with MSX. I need to know all (!) the basic things: 1. How to start a serial connection with the modem (what are the serial parameters of the modem: speed, stopbits, flow control, parity) Pfff... Use the

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-24 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Laurens, 1. How to start a serial connection with the modem Pfff... Use the standard settings: 8N1, and make the speed configurable (you can also set it to the max. speed for simplicity's sake. However I do not recommend it for a final version). Thanks for the info. 2.

Re: Programming external modems with MSX

2000-08-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hi, MSXers, Hi Adriano! I'm needing help from someone who has experience with external modems with MSX. I need to know all (!) the basic things: Heh heh! 1. How to start a serial connection with the modem (what are the serial parameters of the modem: speed, stopbits, flow control,