>I never get login and password prompts when I use minicom to dial in? Does
>this indicate that my ISP uses PAP?
Well, it sure appears that way (that your ISP uses PAP). However, you
sould use "election:" as the expect phrase and "PPP" as the reply, I'd guess.
I've found netcfg to be troublesome with some ISPs... I set up computers
and servers for buisnesses, and I've found a lot of ISPs that present
login: prompts, but really don't want you to repsond to them, but rather to
simply start up PPP without a word. This is what wvdial calls "Stupid
Mode". Although I'll agree that direct use of pppd (and ifup/ifdown) is a
tighter solution, I'm going to suggest that wvdial configuration is the
easiest way to set up a net connection, second to linuxconf, then netcft,
and lastly direct pppd chat configuration.
So, if you have troubles, you may want to try wvdial instead.
>"Could not look up internet address for dial-up. This will prevent GNOME
>from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by
>adding dial-up to the file /etc/hosts" Then I hit continue and log in....
I believe that the new versions of pppd don't allow you to have more than
one default route (having multiple doesn't make sense, really). My guess
would be that you need to do some routing work. If this system is not on
the internet other than through ppp then you should *not* have any default
route. Check '/sbin/route' to verify this. If you already have a default
route established, but don't have internet elsewhere (say through eth),
then you need to get rid of your gateway in network.
Lee Howard
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