Wolf Linux Disconnect Problem

Actually, you did not. The tool you are using (or the book you are following) is over nine years out of touch with reality.

Do you mean the 'ppp-on' and 'ppp-on-dialer' garbage that comes with ppp? I guess you didn't notice the original file dates.

1995 was before microsoft invented the telephone, or whatever. The world has changed since then (and in ppp-2.4.3, these scripts are not installed by default anymore).

You want to look at your modem manual. 'AT' (which is what the modem is responding to) and ATH0 are not the modem init strings you should be using. For a USR, it's AT&F1 - and nothing else.

Hello mister Ascend terminal server that is mis-configured by a dumb ISP.

You mis-entered the log data here - notice the time jumps 3.5 minutes in the wrong direction.

You also butchered the transcription here. Get rid of the 'asyncmap' option. Notice that the ISP hung up the phone.

Your problem is nine years old. When you use windoze to dial in, you don't go looking for a login prompt - why start now? The ISP really doesn't know or care what O-S you are using, but has configured the terminal servers so that they work with windoze. In doing so, they FAILED to disable the text mode you have stumbled on, but this doesn't bother windoze cause it never looks for the login prompt, and thus never sees this problem.

compton ~$ catusr-local-bin-dialin #!-bin-bash execusr-sbin-pppd connect "-usr-sbin-chat -fetc-ppp-dialscript" defaultroute lock noipdefault modem nodetachdev-modem 115200 crtscts user djforgold compton ~$

There must not be anything after the in those two lines.

compton ~$ catetc-ppp-dialscript ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' AT&F1 OK ATDT9337556 CONNECTd-c compton ~$

A little explanation here. This script sets two abort conditions (the line is busy, or something Other than a modem answers), then waits for nothing ( ) and sends an init string (check your modem manual). When the modem responds with OK, it dials the phone number, and waits for the modem to report establishing a connection. The script then waits one second (d ) and exits without sending the normal newline character (c ). This is the standard PAP or CHAP setup that micro$oft has forced on the ISPs because windoze can't script worth beans. Authentication is handled by pppd, by havingetc-ppp-pap-secrets and-oretc-ppp-chap-secrets (depending on which scheme your ISP wants to use) contain something like:

djforgold * p42Sw0rD~

Obviously, you would need to put the correct pbuttword in there. Notice that I've put all the options in the 'dialin' command, and myetc-ppp-options file is empty. You could move nearly all of the options to that file if you chose.

You shouldn't feel bad about being trapped like this - the incompetent authors of most dialin helper programs haven't discovered this little fact of life either. But hey, it's only been nine plus years.

Old guy