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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 04:20, Casey Harkins wrote:
> minicom can be useful to verify a modem is working correctly, or tweaking
> the default chat script the iso installs for ppp users. It might be enough
> to offer it as an optional spell to be installed.
>
> Bringing up the ppp connection is done using 'pon <peer>' where <peer> is
> the file created in /etc/ppp/peers which handles the connection. pon/poff
> will default to "isp" as the peer. The iso's have generally prompted the
> user for their username/password, put this info into a chat script
> (/etc/ppp/chat/isp) and created the necessary peer file
> (/etc/ppp/peers/isp). This is where the weakest point is in our ppp setup.
>   The default chat script only works for some isps, not all. Using wvdial
> could solve problems these problems. In addition, many isps now require the
> use of pap/chap to authenticate which require placing the
> user/password in /etc/ppp/{pap-secrets,chap-secrets} and setting some
> options in the peer file to require pap or chap authentication. I don't
> think wvdial can handle pap/chap.
>
> I've considered writing a pppconf script to sit along side netconf, but
> have only limited experience with this stuff.
>
> -casey

Here's the funny part of the story:
(assumed) when the ISO was made from scratch for 0.6 the ppp and rp-pppoe 
sources were removed. 
Selecting pppoe during install still tried to cast rp-pppoe though, which 
obviously failed because there were no sources. For 0.9.2 i corrected this, 
removed cast rp-pppoe and just ran adsl-setup, and am now in the process of 
adding an optional start of that interface after configuration (using 
adsl-start, thanks arwed)
Selecting ppp first tried to copy files from the iso_root that no longer 
existed ( /etc/ppp/*) then took you through a dialog configuration that then 
ran "sedit" on those copied files to change the defaults to the users 
choices. So firstly copying the files failed because they didn't exist, and 
then "sedit" is not a real binary in the iso_root (sorcery function) so it 
fails a second time. much fun and giggles for all the family

giggles aside, should minicom and wvdial (gaze search wvdial returns 
nothing ?) be added to the iso_root ? Or is it enough just to have them 
cached and ready for install ? I can get back to you with sizes if people 
want to make an objective comparison.

for the pppconf script you mention, I know of a user (cored - Rafael George) 
who once told me on IRC he wanted to fix up the ppp stuff for the ISO and 
SMGL, he was listed on the ISO team until I took over, when lack of response 
to multiple contact attempts meant he was removed. Perhaps he is still 
interested and capable of working with you. 
Rafael if you are reading this and interested would you get into contact with 
Casey please ?
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