I may be the least likely person to try to offer advice in this area,
but as I struggled for a year with my ppp, until finally getting a
connection(yeah!!! :-)) let me ask some questions.
I finally got some pointers from two sources; one was a non-Linux user
and one runs a server.
I can not help with diald as I've not done anything with it, but when I
want to start ppp I type "pppd &" after logging in with su. The modem
dials and my linux box logs on to my isp. When I first installed Linux
it would dial, but ultimately fail to connect. As a newbie I didn't
realize how the process worked(I'm not suggesting that of you, by the
way).
It wasn't until editing a couple of the various files and getting help
with the chat script things clicked. I'm not certain whether the script
was the ticket or all things put together.
I include a generic version of the script I use for my isp below:
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
"" ATZ
OK ATH
OK ATDTphone_number
CONNECT '\d\d\d\r'
TIMEOUT 60
'sername:' 'login_name'
assword: '\qpassword'
umber: '1'
My options looked like this:
user login_name <= my login name goes here
remotename internet_provider <= I put the name of my isp here
-detach
mru 1400
mtu 1400
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/generic.chat"
/dev/ttyS1 115200
crtscts modem defaultroute noipdefault
#asyncmap 0
As a linux newbie I can not attest to how secure this script is and that
is a question that does concern me, but it does work for my provider( I
prefer this to Minicom and logging into the local freenet.
The above is not sophisticated and may be improved upon, but seems to
work.
Two places I found helpful, besides help from people were www.tir.com,
which has a FAQ that covers this subject(you'll have to look a little
for it) and www.mindspring.com.
I hope this is of help.
Regards,
Bob
Richard King wrote:
>
> I'm finally able to use both kppp and wvdial successfully with my USR
> Sportster Flash modem (v90) but its really bugging me that I am totally
> unable to get CHAT to work...
>
> When I run chat, and believe me I've tried just about every INIT string I
> can think of, I get zero reaction from the modem - no blinking of lights or
> result codes - and chat just times-out....
>
> But it occurs to me - how does chat know which port to address?? (cos' I
> think maybe it doesn't??) Does it simply use /dev/modem or what? There
> is nothing In can find in the man page - on the USR site - or in the serial
> or PPP Howto's. All the documentation I've seen seems to assume that if
> you can dial-out okay using minicom or kermit, then chat must work too...
> Minicom works 100% - and even if I use it to initialise the modem, then exit
> minicom without resetting, chat still fails.
>
> Is anyone able to throw some light on this please?? I've wasted days
> fiddling with this and hate to be defeated!
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard King
> Johannesburg
>
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