Well hello again, I finally got around to working on the Fire Dept. PC again. I have now gotten my home PC connecting and working well with my ISP; the same as the FD in fact the same account. I then went to the Fire Station and used the same PPPConfig settings, using CHAT, and now I get past the Username: and Password prompts and receive a "connection established" message then pppd fires up and I am back at the connection time-out and connection terminated with the information about "not clean 8 bit..."
Earlier, John Hasler wrote: > It looks like the isp for your Fire Dept. box is expecting a chat login and > you are trying to use PAP. Dial in with minicom and work through the login > until you get the garbage that indicates that the isp has started ppp to > find out just what he wants to see. > > > I looked at my Win98 DUN setup and it is using 8N1 for bit settings. I > > do not know where to go in PPP to play with the bit settings. > > You don't need to. That error message is misleading. What is happening is > that pppd is sending packets to what it thinks is another pppd at the isp. > The shell at the isp echoes the packets (with bit 7 off because it is in > text mode) and keeps looking for the rest of the login. Pppd, which is > expecting ppp packets, sees that bit seven is cleared and jumps to a wrong > conclusion. I am now a bit further along but still not quite there, this is a 56K ISA modem. Thank you. -- Danny R. Gray Research Technician Department of Pathology UNC-CH School of Medicine
