[ILUG] Eircom Flatrate died...

[Liam Bedford]

Adam Conway wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have an Eircom Flatrate dialup account [too much
>copper wire to get broadband:(] which has been fine
>for some months now.  It's running on a Slackware 9.0
>system using pppd and chat to make the connection (and
>share it to other machines on the network).
>
>Had some initial problems when setting it up about six
>months ago.  It turned out that eircom doesn't send a
>login prompt it says (after the connect line) "Welcome
>to eircom!" and then just sits and waits for you to
>guess you have to put in username and password. Having
>changed the relevent bits of /usr/sbin/ppp-on-dialer
>to expect, instead of 'ogin:' and 'assword:' 'Welcome
>to eircom!' and '' respectively worked.
>
>This worked for several months then last night it
>died.  When I connect using minicom it now says 
>CONNECT 115200
>but after that it just flings garbage at me (mainly
>'}' and '!') then hangs up.  The logs simply say 
>
>May 26 23:06:52 whiterabbit chat[2111]:
>ATDT1893150150^M^M
>May 26 23:06:52 whiterabbit chat[2111]: CONNECT
>May 26 23:06:52 whiterabbit chat[2111]:  -- got it 
>May 26 23:06:52 whiterabbit chat[2111]: send (^M)
>May 26 23:06:52 whiterabbit chat[2111]: expect
>(Welcome to eircom !)
>May 26 23:06:52 whiterabbit chat[2111]:  115200^M
>May 26 23:06:56 whiterabbit chat[2111]: ~^?}#@!}!} }
>}$}-o~~^?}#@!}!}!} }4}"}&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"y9~~^?}#@!}!}"} }4}"
>May 26 23:07:00 whiterabbit chat[2111]: }&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"3}$~~^?}#@!}!}#} }4}"}&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"z^W~~^?}
>May 26 23:07:02 whiterabbit chat[2111]: #@!}!}$}
>}4}"}&} }*} } }%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"6w~~^?}#@!}!}%}
>}4}"}&} }*} } }%}&U^K}>^E}'
>May 26 23:07:06 whiterabbit chat[2111]:
>}"}(}"^?d~~^?}#@!}!}&} }4}"}&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"5Y~~^?}#@!}!}'} }4}"}&} }*} }
>May 26 23:07:10 whiterabbit chat[2111]: 
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"|J~~^?}#@!}!}(} }4}"}&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"<^P~~^?}#@!}!})} }
>May 26 23:07:12 whiterabbit chat[2111]: 4}"}&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"u}#~~^?}#@!}!}*} }4}"}&} }*} }
>}%}&U^K}>^E}'}"}(}"?>~
>May 26 23:07:22 whiterabbit chat[2111]: alarm
>May 26 23:07:22 whiterabbit chat[2111]: Failed
>
>  
>
Looks like they're sending you ppp straight away. If you're using
wvdial, you can turn on stupid mode, with chat, I think you can probably
just wait till you see CONNECT and that's that..

L.