Re: i can't get online

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:52:23 -0600, Moe Trin typed this message:

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.suse, in
article <xo0il.16814$c45.642@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, noi ance wrote:

Chad Porkins typed this message:

noi ance wrote:

Chad Porkins typed this message:

pppd[0]: --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. pppd[0]:
Dreamscape Online LLC - syr-mdm-a6000-03 pppd[0]: System Password:
pppd[0]: --> Looks like a password prompt.

Note that it's asking for the _SYSTEM_ password. Not a username, not
the password of the user - the remote wants the equivalent of the 'root'
password. Do you honestly think that normal? And yet the user can
dial in using windoze. Hmmm...


If that is what it's asking of course it shouldn't see comment below
about number dialed

Looks like the wvdialer isn't passing the password correctly or at
all.

man wvdial look at stupid mode. He's found one of them.


I don't have wvdial installed nor any dialer installed for at least 5yrs,
and I'm not installing it to solve someone else's problem.

everything worked good for three months and then it broke and i don't
know why .

The ISP reloaded the software on the terminal server, and didn't disable
the login prompt. This is no problem for the ISP or windoze lusers,
because their software doesn't look for a login prompt. The ONLY ones
who have problems are the poor sods who use wvdial or other equally crap
software, and those following section 14 of the PPP-HOWTO without
noticing that it was written in 1994 before microsoft invented dialin..

Well something changed. Do you need to use area code now?

HELLO!!! The call went through!!! It's not necessarily something he
did, and most certainly a change at the ISP. And the same phone
number, username and password works in windoze.


Dialed number: I question the need for area code because if he connected
to the wrong area code+number that might explain the strange system
password prompts.

Have you called the ISP to ask if they changed anything.

He gets to talk to the hell-desk-droids - they can't spell PPP, and
don't have a clue what it is.

Yeah, not my fault if they lost the prepared text answers for dialup
users.

You could try manually dialing using pppd, I don't have a modem and
haven't dialing in decades so I don't have a sample for you.

Sigh... cat ./dialin.script

exec /usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" "AT&F1" OK ATDT6715799
CONNECT "\d\c" ' /dev/modem 115200 debug nodetach crtscts modem :
defaultroute user red@xxxxxxxx

That's all one line - the /dev/modem is a link to the device that is
actually the modem (man ln), and the 'user' argument (here shown as
'red@xxxxxxxx') should be the username used at the ISP. The file
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets should contain the same username, a '*' and the
password of the user at the ISP - in the form

red@xxxxxxxx * p42Sw0rD~

and "just in case" copy this file (or link) to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.
Make sure /etc/resolv.conf has the right name server data (preferably
two 'nameserver 192.0.2.22' lines ONLY - with the correct IP addresses
of course). The hardest part is that this command would have to be run
by root. (You could also make /usr/sbin/pppd SUID...)

Google modem dialing or your modem handbook.

Jeez - how is the weather out there in left field?

Old guy

Old guy!! I stopped using dialup in like 1998 or sometime. I think I
might have installed Linux dialout for a week or 2 back in 1999 to fax a
document but that was it. I do remember how to use modem command
strings from Win3.x and W2k days.

I'm glad you remember the details though.
.

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