First, thanks to all the people that has posted to this thread. Second, I want to explain some point here. I have Debian 1.3.1 with ppp installed from the 1.3.1 cd ( ppp_2_2... don't remember ) and I found the pon and poff files.
I checked my ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out scripts according to the sugestions here, but when I type pon I got nothing, and off course poff returns "no pppd running". I also tryed dialing directly to my ISP using minicom and I got this: ii Entering PPP Mode IP Address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx MTU is xxxx That's it! I was told by my ISP tech. support that they use PAP. I think I modified the options file according to the Robert Hart's howto http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html ) but I may be wrong or I just did it wrong! ( that's for sure! ;-) Any ideas? Am I in the right path? Thanks again to all of you. Ivan -----Original Message----- From: Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ivan & Ines Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 12:42 PM Subject: Re: I need help >I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and >that you installed close to the latest packages... > >ppp-on and ppp-off were replaced with /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff. > >Have you determined if your ISP uses PAP or CHAP? >Do you have to login with a 'username' or 'account' and 'password'? > >Have you tried loggin in with a term program such as miniterm yet? > > >Unfortunately, the HOWTOs were originally write almost exclusively from >the standpoint of a Slackware distribution. People using debian, >redhat, caldera, unifix, (as far as I know even slackware now), and >other distributions are sometime mislead in various ways by the HOWTOs. > >Debian, in particular differs from the the specifics of the HOWTO. This >deviation is not done 'just to be different' and indeed the entire Linux >community often eventually adopts the 'debian way'. > >The debian effort is intended to produce a system that is upgradeable >with minimum impact on your configuration (and thus on you!). However, >to do that usually requires that the debian distribution does things a >little bit differently than some of the other distributions have done >things in the past. > >Unlike DOS and a number of other operating systems, Unix/Linux is pretty >famous for allowing users (and system administrators where applicable) >to choose many different ways to accomplish a given task. > >As a practical matter, some restraint must be imposed upon system >administration if it is to be possible to produce a package mainenance >system that can upgrade packages while retaining the specific >configuration that you choose to run. > >Thus, debian differs a bit from other distributions because alteration >that you make to your system should comply with the 'debian way' or >future upgrades could fail to properly install (in most of those cases >you would have to do your configuration over again). > <.......> > >-- >best, >-bill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: >"The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" > See! They do get some things right! > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .