From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 7 05:02:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03122 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 05:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03000 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 05:01:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA10097; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 12:36:21 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199803071236.MAA10097@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: MALCOLM BOFF cc: danny , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: PPP and Compuserve In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 08:42:41 EST." <199803040843_MC2-357B-A4F2@compuserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 12:36:21 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Malcolm: > > > > Have you exhausted http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp16.html#16 ? > > > > dan > > Yes, although there are slight differences in the script > in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ie 'predl' was not supported at > 2.2.2-RELEASE also I have buttoned out the Hayes M0 code > so I can hear what the modem is doing if anything. > > The response is as follows :- > sylmex> ppp > Can' open /etc/ppp/secret > Warning: No password entry for this host in ppp.secret > Warning: All manipulation is allowed by anyone in the world > Log level is 281 > Using interface: tun0 > Interactive mode. You may want to upgrade from http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian. > ppp ON sylmex > dial provider > Dial attempt 1 of 10 > Phone: (0845) 0800 1000 > dial OK! > login failed You need chat logging. With the latest version, you can `set log local chat'. > ppp ON sylmex > Packet mode. > ppp ON sylmex > close > ppp ON sylmex > quit all > > There are some pequliarities with Compuserve in that > the login is 2 numerics seperated by a comma and the > password must have a special character in it somewhere > and in my case this is 2 words seperated by a 'space' > I don't know what 'ppp' will do about this !! Either quote the string (you have to escape the quotes - see the latest man page) or use the `\s' sequence (again, see the latest man page). > Malcolm G. Boff > Sylmex Ltd. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message