For the record, the solution I came up with for a friend was to use KPPP which allows entry of a custom chat script. This was worked out by connecting manually (i.e. using miniterm), and seeing what the xtra server was expecting.
Xtra's login prompts confuse wvdial and thus gnome-ppp. In Kppp setup choose Authentication: Script based for the script Expect ogin: Send <your username> Expect word: Send <your password> Expect ser: Send ppp Note that the password is in clear text, haven't looked for a way around this. Appropriate permissions on the kppp config file will help (I leave this as an exercise for the reader, i.e. I don't know where it is) Also note that this can probably be done with old style pppd and chatscripts, but is even more arcane for a normal user. regards Eliot On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM, chris <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sadly, none of the suggestions offered have worked, and after a day > discussing with Xtra, ( who continued with the party line) > my client simply changed isp's > end of issue.
