PPP

["W. Guy Finley" <wgfinley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all.  The SuSE install went quite well, and took on the first try
(although I screwed up the partitioning  and LILO crashed but I figured out
what I did and reinstalled).

The first thing I'm trying to do appears to be the most problematic from
what I've seen in the NGs, etc.  Trying to get my Dial Up going.

I tried KPPP but it hangs every time on "setting modem volume" and this
apparently is a bug that's out there.  I then tried WVDIAL which comes with
SuSE.  It seems to work quite well, auto-detected the external ISDN modem
and the initialization string.  The modem will dial and connect at which
point the log says PPPD is starting at <local time> and that's it.  Nothing
further, nothing in any of the debug logs or anything.

I tried playing with the /etc/options and /etc/resolv.conf files in many
different combinations with no results (SuSE actually has some custom
versions of these files with nice little comment hints to help you debug).
I tried terminal mode to see exactly what the host requests but I don't get
anything, is this because it's CHAP?

Was hoping one of you guys could help, I'm using Ameritech.Net which you
guys have back there.  I know it's CHAP, but not sure which variety.  Any
help would be appreciated.  Oh, and if it's "get such & such dialer" then
you're going to have to educate me on how to get Linux to read my FAT32
partition because obviously I can't download anything in Linux right now.

--Guy