[PLUG] Trying to configure dial up using wvdial...

[Michael Robinson]

I have a friend up in Toledo, Washington who I'm trying to set up a 
dial-up server for.

The phone number for her Internet service is 864-8888.  If anyone is 
local and can figure
out what the authentication method is, it would help.  I can dial that 
number from Scappoose
at 2 am, but it's long distance.  I have an XP home system with dial 
settings that got on
to Toledotel when I was up there last.  I'm tempted to ask how much DSL 
costs at her place
and suggest that she and her friend dump this dial-up service.  If it's 
around $20 a month,
that might be better.

Wvdial says it doesn't know what to do and waits for a prompt.  No 
prompt, it attempts
launching ppp, which produces an error about an LCP timeout.  If XP's 
dialer does
something special, it's a mystery to me.

Even Columbia Center which used to work with Redhat 6.2's wvdial 
evidently won't
now.  Maybe I'm just missing something.  Granted I don't have an account 
there
anymore, but I'm getting the same there's no prompt result.

     --  Michael C. Robinson