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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:35:36PM -0800, David Moberg wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >The interaction with the modem was as follows:
> >
> >04:43.680 Match: "OK"
> >04:43.680 Send:  "atdxxxxxxxx\r"
> >04:44.280 Recv:  "atdxxxxxxxx"
> ..
> >04:48.680 Recv:  "NO CARRIER\r\n"
> >04:48.680 Match: "NO CARRIER"
> >04:48.680 Fail
> >
> >/quote
> >
> >It's still failing with "No Carrier" _immediately_ after
> >the number is dialed.
> >
> >I also tried with "chat no" added.
> 
> Ron Clarke had a similar problem, I think: eznet doesn't seem to work
> right if your ISP uses a particular flavor of PAP/CHAP authentication.
> His solution was to use wvdial instead. Since you have used chat
> before on Debian, maybe that is the way to proceed? A libc5 versions
> of chat should be available in the Slackware 4.0 n5/ppp.tgz package.

Looks like it:

>From PACKAGES.TXT (4.0) Which I have here:

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
ppp:      PPP for Linux, versions 2.2.0f and 2.3.7
ppp:
ppp:      PPP for Linux -- Michael Callahan's ppp.c kernel driver and the pppd
ppp:      daemon (ported by Al Longyear).  Linux PPP support is included as a
ppp:      loadable module in the modules.tgz package.  This package also
ppp:      contains pppsetup, an easy-to-use, user-friendly utility for setting
ppp:      up your PPP daemon.
ppp:


> You can get it from various Slackware mirrors, for example,
> http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-4.0/slakware/n5/ppp.tgz.
> Before you install it, back up your pppd binary (in /usr/bin or
> /usr/sbin, normally) so you can use it instead of the ancient
> Slackware 4.0 binary. You should then be able to copy over your
> working Debian setup and connect.
> 
> :-) If that doesn't work, ask Ron if he has any suggestions, since he
> has some experience with this..

Says in the debian package description that it is even easier
than chat:

Description: PPP dialer with built-in intelligence WvDial
sacrifices some of the flexibility of programs like "chat" in
order to make your dialup configuration easier. When you install
this package, your modem will be detected automatically and
you need to specify just three parameters: the phone number,
username, and password. WvDial knows enough to dial with most
modems and log in to most servers without any other help. In
particular, you no longer need a "chat script" to handle the most
common situations.

/quote

Thanks, David.

I'll try that soon if nothing else works.

Lee