[ale] Any PPP-versed people here?

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Oy... it has been a long time since I have used PPP for anything.  I
recently signed up for some backup Internet access by way of dialup so
that I can have dialup access when I go to Toledo, if I do not happen to
be near an access point.

However, there is a bit of a problem:  GNOME's network properties quite
happily offers to set up PPP for me, but it does not work.  I looked at
the chat script it uses, and it just looks for CONNECT and passes off to
pppd, it appears, but what I need it to do is enter the username and
password, look for "PPP", and /then/ hand off the connection to pppd.  I
cannot find any options for that in the configuration program, and I do
not remember hardly anything about setting up PPP links by hand.  I am
using Ubuntu (Dapper), so if there is something that elegantly fits,
that would be awesome, but, honestly, anything is better than nothing at
all.  :-)

The only real thing is that I need to be able to easily change the phone
number used, so that I can use whatever number would be the closest for
me in the area I may be at.  That can probably be accomplished through
some sed black magic+shell scripting, if need be.

	- Mike
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