wvdial dials won't negotiate

Yogi-CH · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject: wvdial dials won't negotiate

I have tried wvdial and can connect but the negotiation fails and bails out. I am using an external ISDN modem and have set the proper dev, obviously, as well as trying some parameters at different values as noted in the wvdial.conf taken from my other distro since I cannot get an auto-generated file (no detected modem):

stickboy2642 · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject:

Just curious, have you tried AT for the command to initialize the modem? I had a modem that would die with ATZ for some reason. Think it depends on the manufacture what commands will work. What I ended up doing is hooking the modem I had to a Windows box and turning logging on when I connected. The init strings were written to the log and I was able to copy them from there.

Make sure that you have values in your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Some ISPs require values to be stored in this file before authenticating a user. This caused me many problems.

If neither of these work, can you post the output from wvdial and possibly your log files? This may give more information about what is happening.
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Yogi-CH · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:15 pm Post subject:

[SOLVED]

The pap-secrets file was apparently the key. Got the wvdial working.

Thanks for the suggestions!
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