modem troubles

roXet · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 26

I am having some trouble dialing in on my new Gentoo 1.2 system. I have wvdial installed and configured and my modem *seems* to be working. when I run wvdial it dials out and I get the handshake then, I see the passwod prompt go through like 3 times. Then I get a 'No Carrier' message. Here is the output wvdial gives me:

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 2:22 am Post subject:

roXet · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 26

I thought of that =)
I entered a wrong password on purpose and it did a totally diffrent thing. It dumped me out to a prompt that looked like this 'cptel>'

(that is the name of my isp). I'm still at a loss. I didn't find anything about specifing the type of authentication it uses. I know it needs to be set to pap though.

Also, I checked /var/log but there is no messages file like with the syslog that I am used to with other linux distros. I find a dir called /var/log/everything and one called /var/log/kernel and in both of those directories there is a file called everything, but there isn't anything useful in either. =/

Day Brown · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 1

While I was typing this I just thought of something. What type of authentication does wvdial use?
I'm trying to find out what types it CAN use.

I just changed isp, and all I got was a curious prompt:
%ascend

Which led to me trying BSD,Corel,
Debian,Slackware, Suse, and Storm,
before I got down to Redhat 7.2,
which finally had a kppp driver that knew what to do. And I'm trying to find out if Gentoo knows.

It may be DHCP, not sure of the nomenclature. But there is a box to click for an 'automatic' logon. so,
all the computer needs is my username, password, and isp phone number. No DNS numbers, no host names, no news, mail, smtp.

But if you get to a peculiar prompt
like I did, which I can still do by
using terminal in kppp setup, by all means answer it with a "?"
so when I got
%ascend ?
and typed the '?', it gave me this
lovely cli menu. I found out how many modems it had, and how many were active (30% max), could ping,
telnet, traceroute, .. and since i
had not actually logged in, did it
completely anonomously.

Freaked out the isp techies.

But to the issue at hand: will gentoo's kppp do the automatic logon that the windoz routers expect? Or does anyone know where I
can download and install a copy of
a ppp driver that can do it so I
can quit using redhat?
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Cthulhu · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:46 am Post subject:

Hello,
I have exactly the same problem

wvdial output: