pppconfig is an interactive, menu driven utility to help automate setting
up a dial up ppp connection. It currently supports PAP, CHAP, and chat
authentication. It uses the standard pppd configuration files. It does
not make a connection to your isp, it just configures your system so that
you can do so with a utility such as pon. It can detect your modem, and
it can configure ppp for dynamic dns, multiple ISP's and demand dialing.
Before running pppconfig you should know what sort of authentication your
isp requires, the username and password that they want you to use, and the
phone number. If they require you to use chat authentication, you will
also need to know the login and password prompts and any other prompts and
responses required for login. If you can't get this information from your
isp you could try dialing in with minicom and working through the procedure
until you get the garbage that indicates that ppp has started on the other
end.
Since pppconfig makes changes in system configuration files, you must be
logged in as root or use sudo to run it.
