tlug: ATT Worldnet PPP connection

["Jonathan Byrne" <jbyrne@example.com>]

I've been following the posts here about PPP connections and ATT WorldNet
under Linux and have put in the perl script that was recenty posted here,
as well as putting in my userid and password in chap-secrets and
pap-secrets, but I still cannot make a succesful connection.

My setup is an NEC Aterm IT55 DSU terminal adapter on COM 2 with Pacific
Hi-tech's new Turbo Linux 1.0 distribution.  When I run the script, it
dials but fails after about 10 seconds (or less).  Once this has happened,
it won't even dial after that. The ER light comes on, but the ACT light
never does (neither blinking nor solid).  I'm trying to connect to the ATT
WorldNet Tokyo access point.

I've spent days on this and have yet to make a PPP connection.  I'm new to
Linux but a very experienced computer user in general and have been
succesfully using ISDN under Windows 95 for a long time.  I should have a
dedicated Internet connection by the end of December and then this won't be
an issue anymore (I've set Linux up on a dedicated connection and it's a
snap; I wish PPP was that easy), but I'd still like to be able to make this
work.  In the meantime, I'm glad I have a Windows 95 install to make a PPP
connection with :-)

This is a clipping of several attempts as recorded in /var/log/messages. 
Unfortunately, there seems to be no indicator of why this isn't working,
but perhaps someone more familiar with PPP on Linux will see something that
I can't:

Nov 29 19:47:15 localhost syslog: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
Nov 29 19:48:07 localhost innd[396]: s
Nov 29 19:49:13 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0
Nov 29 19:49:13 localhost pppd[728]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Nov 29 19:49:14 localhost chat[729]: abort on (BUSY) 
Nov 29 19:49:14 localhost chat[729]: send (ATDT0353243781^M) 
Nov 29 19:49:15 localhost chat[729]: expect (CONNECT) 
Nov 29 19:49:27 localhost chat[729]: ATDT0353243781^M^M 
Nov 29 19:49:27 localhost chat[729]: NO CARRIER^M 
Nov 29 19:50:00 localhost chat[729]: alarm
Nov 29 19:50:00 localhost pppd[728]: Connect script failed
Nov 29 19:50:00 localhost pppd[728]: Exit.
Nov 29 19:50:00 localhost chat[729]: Failed
Nov 29 19:54:12 localhost pppd[758]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Nov 29 19:54:13 localhost chat[759]: abort on (BUSY) 
Nov 29 19:54:13 localhost chat[759]: send (ATDT0353243781^M) 
Nov 29 19:54:14 localhost chat[759]: expect (CONNECT) 
Nov 29 19:54:59 localhost chat[759]: ATDT0353243781^M
Nov 29 19:54:59 localhost pppd[758]: Connect script failed
Nov 29 19:54:59 localhost pppd[758]: Exit.
Nov 29 19:54:59 localhost chat[759]: alarm
Nov 29 19:54:59 localhost chat[759]: Failed
Nov 29 19:57:50 localhost pppd[791]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Nov 29 19:57:51 localhost chat[792]: abort on (BUSY) 
Nov 29 19:57:51 localhost chat[792]: send (ATDT0353243781^M) 
Nov 29 19:57:52 localhost chat[792]: expect (CONNECT) 
Nov 29 19:58:04 localhost chat[792]: ATDT0353243781^M^M 
Nov 29 19:58:04 localhost chat[792]: NO CARRIER^M 
Nov 29 19:58:10 localhost innd[396]: s
Nov 29 19:58:37 localhost chat[792]: alarm
Nov 29 19:58:37 localhost chat[792]: Failed
Nov 29 19:58:37 localhost pppd[791]: Connect script failed
Nov 29 19:58:37 localhost pppd[791]: Exit.
Nov 29 20:05:27 localhost pppd[1059]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Nov 29 20:05:28 localhost chat[1060]: abort on (BUSY) 
Nov 29 20:05:28 localhost chat[1060]: send (ATDT0353243781^M) 
Nov 29 20:05:28 localhost chat[1060]: expect (CONNECT) 
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost pppd[1067]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost pppd[1067]: Device modem is locked by pid 1059
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost pppd[1067]: Exit.
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost chat[1060]: ATDT0353243781^M
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost chat[1060]: alarm
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost chat[1060]: Failed
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost pppd[1059]: Connect script failed
Nov 29 20:06:13 localhost pppd[1059]: Exit.
Nov 29 20:06:26 localhost pppd[1071]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Nov 29 20:06:27 localhost chat[1072]: abort on (BUSY) 
Nov 29 20:06:27 localhost chat[1072]: send (ATDT0353243781^M) 
Nov 29 20:06:27 localhost chat[1072]: expect (CONNECT) 
Nov 29 20:06:39 localhost chat[1072]: ATDT0353243781^M^M 
Nov 29 20:06:39 localhost chat[1072]: NO CARRIER^M 

Thanks in advance for any advice on this.

Jonathan


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