PPP over Serial connection to Windows XP Desktop

"Benjamin Priestman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.familiar
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi All,
 
I've just installed the Familiar v.0.8.4 on my h2200 series iPaq and am
trying to get it talking to the outside world. Snag is: I'm only running
Windows desktop machines at the moment.
 
I'm not having any joy with the usbNet approach (see separate mail to this
list) and am now trying the ppp-over-serial approach. I've configured the
iPaq and Windows XP desktop as per the HowTo on
http://www.handhelds.org/howto/win2kppp/win2kppp.html. I get as far as the
login prompt in the Pre-Dial Terminal Screen (on Windows). Initially, I get
the prompt:

ATE1
Password:

Pressing Carriage-Return at this point, gives me the usual login prompt.
Using 'ppp' as the login, I get the response:

Warning: Cannot change to home directory /usr/sbin/pppd in file:
/etc/ppp/options:

And then I get the login prompt again.

In setting the iPaq, I configured the /etc/ppp/options file to match that
given on the HowTo. However, the original options file contained only the
single line: lock. Modifying the options file so that it consists of just
this line and the two specified in the HowTo, makes no difference to this
behaviour, though.

Can anyone suggest a way forward?

Regards,

Benjamin
 

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