Subject: Re: PPP problems
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 13:18:14 MST
Paul J. Lucas's bits of Sat, 4 Mar 2000 translated to:
>On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
>> I use earthlink. Are you doing manual scripts or kppp, or whatever?
>> There's a good howto on imaclinux, which I verified. (script based).
>
> Could you give the exact URL for that? I went to imaclinux
> (which is just a ront for tucows) and couldn't find THAT
> how-to.
>
> By the way: anybody already have a PowerBook (Lombard)
> configured to use the modem for PPP already? What files do you
> have to mess with? My ISP just has a Login and Password
> prompt.
>
> - Paul
It can be done. I am able to use my Lombard with mindspring. It took me
a while to figure everything out, and unfortunately I may have forgotten
some of it since I rarely use the modem. Hopefully the following will be
of some use with earthlink since they merged with mindspring *shrug*
First I created a couple scripts for starting and stopping things, at
least I think I did ;) It has been about 6 months.
pppup
-----
#!/bin/bash
killall -INT pppd 2>/dev/null
rm -rf /var/lock/LCK..modem /var/run/ppp*.pid
/usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/pppscript" &
pppdown
-------
#!/bin/bash
kill -INT `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
Other files were...
/etc/ppp/pppscript
------------------
TIMEOUT 10
ABORT ERROR
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
"" "+++ATH"
OK "ATZ"
OK "ATDT9999999999" <-- Change this to your access number
TIMEOUT 75
CONNECT
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets
--------------------
"your_user_name" * "your_password"
Btw, if earthlink is the same as mindspring, your username is actually
your email address, which is a bit funky.
/etc/ppp/options
----------------
lock
defaultroute
noipdefault
modem
/dev/modem
115200
mtu 500
crtscts
debug
passive
asyncmap 0
name "your_user_name"
On my system, /dev/modem is a sym link to /dev/ttyS0
Think that's it. Hope it isn't a complete waste of bandwidth ;) And
beware... Mindspring/Earthlink is like spam central ;) I have *never*
even given anyone my mindspring address, and I had 88 pieces of lovely
junk mail when I logged in *sigh* Course I haven't logged in for a few
months.
Jim
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