[ILUG] Dialup problems

[Lars Hecking]

 Laptop running SuSE 9.1

 Setting up dialup to, say, IOLfree, works fine with YaST/wvdial/kinternet,
 but not with pppd directly, and I'm seeing similar problems when using
 minicom. Basically, when it comes to the point where my chat script
 expects the prompt, it gets binary garbage and then NO CARRIER. Same in
 minicom: connecting to the site manually to see what the actual prompt
 looks like, it gets binary garbage instead.

/etc/ppp/peers/iolfree:
 /dev/ttySL0 38400 crtscts
 connect '/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat-iolfree'
 noauth
 user iolfree
 defaultroute
 replacedefaultroute
 netmask 255.255.255.0

/etc/ppp/chat-iolfree:
 TIMEOUT 120
 ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r'
 ABORT '\nNO DIALTONE\n'
 ABORT '\nERROR\n'
 ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\n'
 ABORT '\nBUSY\n'
 ABORT '\nUsername/Password Incorrect\n'
 '' AT
 OK "ATDT1890924042"
 CONNECT ''
 'ogin:' iolfree
 'word:' iolfree
 'access>' ppp

 Any ideas? I desperately need to be able to do this with pppd directly
 rather than wvdial because the latter doesn't do dialback (had this working
 in the old workplace, but the old scripts don't work anymore for some
 reason).

Nov 25 22:23:56 localhost pppd[5521]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: timeout set to 120 seconds
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: abort on (\nNO CARRIER\r)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: abort on (\nNO DIALTONE\n)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: abort on (\nERROR\n)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: abort on (\nNO ANSWER\n)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: abort on (\nBUSY\n)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: abort on (\nUsername/Password Incorrect\n)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: send (AT^M)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: expect (OK)
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: AT^M^M
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: OK
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]:  -- got it
Nov 25 22:23:57 localhost chat[5522]: send (ATDT1890924042^M)
Nov 25 22:23:58 localhost chat[5522]: expect (CONNECT)
Nov 25 22:23:58 localhost chat[5522]: ^M
Nov 25 22:23:58 localhost chat[5522]: ATDT1890924042^M^M
Nov 25 22:24:27 localhost chat[5522]: CONNECT
Nov 25 22:24:27 localhost chat[5522]:  -- got it
Nov 25 22:24:27 localhost chat[5522]: send (^M)
Nov 25 22:24:27 localhost chat[5522]: expect (ogin:)
Nov 25 22:24:27 localhost chat[5522]:  49333^M
Nov 25 22:24:36 localhost chat[5522]: ~^?}#@!}!}!} "}!}$}%p}"}&} } } } }#}%B#}%}%}&_f}3.}1}$}%\}2}"}3}#} ^Y{~~^?}#@!}!}"}
Nov 25 22:24:39 localhost pppd[5521]: Terminating on signal 2.
Nov 25 22:24:39 localhost chat[5522]: SIGINT
Nov 25 22:24:39 localhost pppd[5521]: Connect script failed
Nov 25 22:24:40 localhost pppd[5521]: Exit.