On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:27:17AM +1200, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
login: username password:<password>
now I'd expect to see something like ~(&*%$%*()&)&*%$&*%^ but nothing happens, it's as if the username/password is wrong, but it isn't. The ppp log also indicates that ppp is not starting when dialing with kppp.
Here's the weird thing: in kppp we put a Expect ~ / Send <nothing> in the chat script because that's what the howto said to do if it looks like ppp is taking a while to start up on the server. No go.
Then we took off the Send <nothing> and just had Expect <any old string>. This caused the chat script to time out waiting for the string and redial. On the second try it connects OK. If the connection is stopped and you try to reconnect then it does the same thing ie dials a second time and connects on the 2nd try.
Any more ideas?
When I had problems dialing up to an isp, it would sometimes work and sometimes not work. This was because the isp had a fairly large modem pool, and had at least two types of modems answering, or at least sets of modems with different setups - if the call was answered by certain modems, things would go ok, but if answered by some other modems we couldn't connect. Also, make sure that your dialup ppp config has "noauth" set, otherwise ppp tries to make the remote end authenticate to you. However you'd get better error messages if this is what's happening to you, but it can't hurt to make sure this is disabled. John McPherson