Common PPPD problem

[Foxdie]

Well I thought this was just me but it turns out to be many more people.

Apart from the original sharp ROM for the C760 (from my perspective anyway) all PPPD versions are broken.

I used to be able to dial up to my ISP fine with the PPPD version that came with the Sharp ROM but the one in the X11 ROM and OpenZaurus ROM (according to a friend) all fail at the authentication stage. I\'m guessing there\'s no MS Dialup protocol (or whatever it\'s called) support compiled into this PPPD version.

Is this fixable, and if not can we have the right version compiled in all future ROMs please?

[lardman]

and OpenZaurus ROM  

Not true, at least for OZ 3.2, I\'ve not tried with OZ 3.3.5. That said, I\'ve also suffered the authentication failure as the chat script supplied by Sharp was malformed. It required an extra ~ \'\' on the end, plus you need to check what kind of authentication you need to use - pap or chap, the Sharp ROM only fills in the chap-secrets file, I needed the pap one.


Si

[Foxdie]

An extra ~ on the end of where?

[lardman]

It\'s actually an extra everything inside the french speech marks << >> ;-):

<< ~ \'\' >>

The double single quotes are required (as the chatscript is all on one line..., etc.).

This sits on the end of the first line of the script which lives in /etc/ppp/peers, on the end of the bit which starts /sbin/chat (from memory).

This tells chat to wait for a tilde, then reply with nothing before handing over control to pppd. My uni allows both manual terminal and automatic ppp logins and if I don\'t do this my Z seems to start pppd too soon and then the uni end thinks I want to login manually so it just sits there authenticating forever then quits.

Also note the bit about chap and pap as this caused me a load of headaches until I realised what was going on.


Si