I will always and forever think that PPP stands for nothing other than "perfect passive participle."

HI Sweetpea,

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Some thoughts...

• I needed to put PPPOPTIONS="noauth" in ifcfg-ppp0 to stop it trying to do pap auth. (Chat script does auth)
• Put \q in front of your password in the chat script to stop it showing up in the logs. (Won't help this problem, but probably a good idea)
• In my chat scripts, after starting the ppp sessions (which for you seems to be sending 'ppp', and the instructions at uw do seem to confirm this) I have it wait for a tilde symbol and two dashes (~) and then send nothing in response. This is probably instead of your 'ppp' command but I thought I'd suggest it anyway.

It does seem that you are not doing something which the other system wants, and thus it's hanging up on you after a time... but I don't really know that much about ppp, and just used minicom to connect to my ISP once and bashed a login script out of that... perhaps you could try that...

(My dialup box is based on Red Hat, so it'll probably differ a bit from your Debian install...)

Try using PAP authentication and starting a PPP session right when you connect, without answering the username/password/cs304>> prompts.

>> expect (assword:)

here's your problem - they need an "assword" :P

have you tried dialing using a dialer (read:minicom), exiting w/o hanging up, and then starting pppd manually? (something to the effect of : pppd -d detach /dev/gnokii 9600 &)...

see if that works...

Its been a long time since I've had any experience whatsoever with any isp which has a terminal sequence a bit like what you've had, but seeing as its 4:25am (on the wrong side of Australia), my little recommendation is a small dialer utility called wvdial.

If I remember reading right, you use Debian , in which case its certainly included. The whole PPP configuration thing is more than a little ugly IMHO but wvdial has generally worked for me.

The only example I've got around here on how to configure it resides on a gateway I dial out of. /etc/wvdial.conf looks like:

[Dialer Defaults]
modem = /dev/modem
Baud = 115200
Init = ATZM0
Phone = 9279 0555
Username = quinncd
Password = *********
Login = quinncd
Auto Reconnect = off

of course you'd replace things with what they should be.

I get the following back when I run "wvdial" (as nohup wvdial &, then I can log out :-) )

--> Sending: quinncd
quinncd
Password: password:
--> Looks like a password prompt.
--> Sending: (password)
annex:
--> Hmm... a prompt. Sending "ppp".
~[7f]}#@!}!i} }?}"}&} }*} } }%}&9__}.}'}"}(}"}1}$}%t}3}'}!chapty~
--> PPP negotiation detected.
--> Starting pppd at Sun Jun 24 02:42:59 2001

You're almost certainly not getting anything back after the last ppp^M, or you'd have signs of negotiations. Dropping out is probably after a multiple of minutes timeout that a ppp negotation hasn't started. It looks like you've definately authenticated correctly or you wouldn't make it to the point you need to get ppp entered, which is the last issue. Depending on the server setup, you get messages like the following after all works well, so you get allocated an ip address (ifconfig shows the ppp device as up)

Jun 24 02:43:00 gateway pppd[502]: pppd 2.4.0b1 started by root, uid 0
Jun 24 02:43:00 gateway pppd[502]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 24 02:43:00 gateway pppd[502]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jun 24 02:43:01 gateway pppd[502]: local IP address 198.142.79.176
Jun 24 02:43:01 gateway pppd[502]: remote IP address 198.142.79.254

Give wvdial a whirl I reckon. Low level editing of ppp setups sounds too error prone. There are some options otherwise to tweak a few things, otherwise over a day to get ppp working is a tad long ! Failing that I might be inspired to look a little further ! (and not for $5 =) )

I get:

ATDT 2068125577
CARRIER
CONNECT
--> Carrier Detected, waiting for prompt
Returning not ok!!
--> Disconnecting at [time]

did it send cr's to try to wakeup the term, cuz the pppscript looked like it sent a cr or so to wakeup the term...

just a thouhgt.

and how do I make wvdial do that?

i dunno, i think possibly some \n's after the connect.. i'll do some more reasearch and see what i can find out ..