Re: pppd problem

[siddharth kaza <kaza@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, V.Suresh wrote:

> 
> It can be even a problem with the phone line. It happened to me last week,
> and for the whole week, wvdial detected carrier prompt, but never a password
> prompt, and it said "don't know what to do, hoping for the best". And I 
> was never connected. Since it was working fine till then, I suspected
> the telephone line(The notorious DoT). And I was right. After 5 days of
> frustration, now everything is just working fine. So double check your
> phone line too. It may not always be that Linux is at fault.
> 
> Vivek khurana <vivekkhurana_in@xxxxxxx> had recently mailed thus:
> >>Hi:-)
> >>  
> >>   I am facing a problem in connecting to the net i am using wvdial my problem
> >>is
> >>  When i use wvdial it connects to server and detects a carrier but after some
> 
i think it's not really the phone line. i think what happens is wvdial
expects the password prompt to be ended with a ':' whereas vsnl (if you
are using that) sometimes (at random) doesn't end it with a colon. so the
script fails and wvdial 'doesn't know what to do'. Though even after that
it seems to work many times how? i'll like someone to tell me.

-- 
Siddharth Kaza
kaza@xxxxxxxx