On 21 Dec 1999, Mike Norris wrote: > Just finished installing Linux and have everything up and running EXCEPT my > connection to Freeserve. > > (this is not a Freeserve problem as the same happens with my Demon connection) > > Hardware seems not to be the problem as I get a connection ... scripts are > exchanged and then I get rejected after Freeserve receives my password. > > Yes my password is the right one! > > I've tried wvdial, pon poff & pppd from the kde window ... I get the same > rejection every time. > > There is something going wrong with the PAP protocols ... > .. I'm now lost in the files > > pppconfig > wvdialconf > /etc/chatscripts ... > /etc/ppp/peers ... > /etc/ppp/options ... > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets ... > > including the > /usr/doc/ppp-HOWTO confusethehelloutofauser > > > and thoroughly confused about the whole process of connecting to my provider. > > I'm at the table banging/screaming stage! > > Can someone HELP me with a simple IDIOT-PROOF guide on connecting up! > > Regards. > > -- > .. Just a Physicist playing with the Universe .. > Mike Norris resides in the English Lake District > ... Acorn StrongArm 233MHz RiscPC ... >
Here is my /etc/ppp/peers/freeserve; works for me! # This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines # but please do not delete lines or the change the comments or you will # confuse pppconfig. noauth #pppconfig_noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/freeserve" #pppconfig_connect debug #pppconfig_debug /dev/ttyS0 #pppconfig_dev 115200 #pppconfig_speed defaultroute #pppconfig_route noipdefault #pppconfig_ipdefault user pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk #pppconfig_user # End of pppconfig controlled lines. You can add lines below here without # confusing pppconfig. And here is my /etc/chatscript/ logon file: ABORT BUSY #ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" ATZ # OK ATDT08450796699 Hope this helps. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ "It's no go the Yogi Man, it's no go Blavatsky" - Louis MacNeice
