[H-GEN] pppd

[rob at unsworth.net]

Andy, Try logging on manually, Minicom, seyon or whatever. You may have
your send/recieve sequence different to your ISP eg, they may be asking
for username: when you are expecting login:

It worked for me.

Robbie.


 On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Robin &
Andy McPherson-Bruce wrote:

> Byron Ellacott wrote:
> 
> > Try enabling full PPP debugging, find out what negotiations it's
> > trying to make, and see if it's even trying to send your password or
> > not.
> 
> i seem to be sending write packets just fine, but no mention of a
> response.. e.g. ppp: write frame, count=28 (+ four lines of hex) 'til we
> drop offline.
> 
> > I had to (interestingly) supply the ``noauth'' option to ppp in order
> > to make it use PAP authentication.
> 
> ppp2.2* spits the dummy if i try to demand noauth - invalid argument, or
> summat..
> 
> > # For a PPP Server with script based logins not using PAP or CHAP
> > # you need to disable this setting.
> > auth
> 
> not sure if i've tried enabling 'auth' yet.. seemed a bit presumptuous
> to go demanding things of the server.. +pap certainly didn't help, but
> then, why should it..
> 
> > I put the ``noauth'' option in /etc/ppp/peers/provider which is where
> > Debian keeps such settings.  You *are* using debian, aren't you? :)
> 
> we-e-e-ell..., not yet, shall we say. 8^). i figure by the time i can
> deal with that, i might be able to appreciate it..
> 
> >  .. afaik, cuaN and ttySn have the same major/minor modes, and are
> > just different names for the same beasties (under linux, that is)
> 
> diff'rent majors (4 & 5 resp.) in rh4.2, 'cording to the docs.
> 
> > Byron Ellacott
> 
> i thank you..
> 
> andy b.
> 
>