[ILUG] Eircom Flatrate Anytime pppd question

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:02:47PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Garreth McDaid thought:
> > Try setting Stupid Mode in your wvdial.conf.  You'll probably have to
> > wait 30 seconds or so until wvdial gets fed up waiting for a prompt from
> > Eircom and just sends the username and password.
> >
> > Things may have changed since I switched to ADSL, but those settings
> > used to work.
> 
> That doesn't appear to be the problem. It seems the 1892 pay-as-you-go
> service doesn't require any username or password, so it probably doesn't
> issue a login prompt. The flatrate service does issue a login prompt, which
> wvdial doesn't understand. I need to find out what the prompt is so that I
> can config wvdial to expect it. All I can get out of a terminal is "Welcome
> to eircom !", which isn't it.

I think that is it.  Start up minicom, dial the subscrption number and
watch what you get.  When you get the 'welcome' message, enter your login
and password and see do you get the ppp gibberish.  If not, try enetring
'ppp' as well.  I'm not sure how to configure wvdial for prompts but my
chat script uses the "Welcome to eircom" message as its login prompt.

Conor
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