[ILUG] Eircom Flatrate Anytime pppd question

[John Tobin]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:02:47PM +0100, Garreth McDaid wrote:
> > 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.

That's what Stupid Mode is for, but wvdial doesn't seem to be
sufficiently stupid/intelligent for Eircom.  I found that after 30
seconds wvdial gives up and just sends the username and password.  I
don't know if you need to send a command to start PPP on the remote end
as Conor suggested or not.  Hmmm, what would you do if you didn't start
PPP?

-- 
John Tobin
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