From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 27 06:32:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22623 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 06:32:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22598 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 06:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA17653; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:27:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981027084815.00901860@spectre.honk.org> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:27:47 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: FREEBSD-NEWBIES ML Subject: Re: PPP Cc: Alex Davidson Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27-Oct-98 Martin Poulin wrote: > Are you sure that your ISP uses a login script? > Some of them use only PAP or CHAP authentication - password > information is sent with the modem handshaking. > > The reason I suspect this is because there is no login prompt when > you dial up using term. Term should echo to you anything that > the ISP modem is sending - therefore if they are sending a login > prompt, you should see it on your screen. If you're not seeing > it, chances are they aren't sending it. > > Read up in the handbook on PAP and CHAP and see if that doesn't > resolve it. That's very likely what's happening. Fortunately, doing a PAP or CHAP login is actually much easier than a chat-scripted login. All you have to do is include the commands "set authname " and "set authkey " in ppp.conf. And either comment out or delete altogether the "login" line. Good luck! -- Conrad Sabatier Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer crashes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message