[ILUG] Eircom.net dial-in

[Dave Airlie]

If you've got a fairly new distrib I'd skip all that and just use wvdial
or kppp or some of those tools.. they work a lot better than manual
scriptage ..

Dave.


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Robert Early wrote:

> Over the years I've been using Linux, I've managed to
> avoid having to configure a dial-in modem but
> unfortunately this is no longer the case.
> My attempts at getting the chat scripts on the
> download section of linux.ie to connect to
> Eircom.net's free service weren't successful.  I
> assume that the "tinet" scripts should still work with
> Eircom.net?
> Can anyone offer a suggestion as to what might be
> wrong?
> First of all it only connects at 14400 baud, and then
> it seems the login message is garbled, so chat doesn't
> pick it up.  The mesage is repeated several times
> before it hangs up.  Here's are lines from the logs:
>
> Jan 23 20:05:11 newhost chat[1496]:
> 14400/ARQ^M^Z^@||^@^@^\^@`^\^@^\^@^@^@^@^\^@^@^@^\^@^@|`^@`^@^@^@^@^@|^@`^@^
> @^@`^@|`^@`^@^\^@|^@^\^\~^\^@^\|^@^@^\^@`^@^@`^@^\^@^@|
> Jan 23 20:05:11 newhost chat[1496]:
> ^@||^@^\^@|^\^@^\^@^\|~|^\^@^\^\^\^@`^@^@`^@`|^\^\`^\^@^\^@`^\^@^\^\^@``~^N^
> \^@`^\|^@^@|^@`^@^\^\`|^\^@^\|^@`^\~^@^\^\^\^\|~`^\^\^\`
>
> The modem is a US Robotics 56K External and it
> connects at 45.2Kbps under (ahem) other operating
> systems.
>
> R.
>
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