Well, one thing you can do is turn on the debugging capabilities of chat.
There's a handy-dandy script to turn it on and off in my dial-on-demand
ppp kit on ftp.macbsd.org/private/pgoyette

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Steven Huwig wrote:

> Hi,
>    For the last week I've been trying to get my system to make a PPP
> connection. I spent some time tweaking files, but the script in
> ppp-setup.tgz acts like a maniac...it seems to pick up the phone but
> sometimes not dial, and ppp-down doesn't really kill pppd; it'll try again
> in a few seconds. Lately, though, I've been getting crap saying "Connect
> script failed; can't delete pid: is directory." I looked in /run/var and
> there was no pid file for ppp. I've tried deleting the files from
> ppp-setup.tgz, but to no avail. Before all this happened, I got a script to
> connect, but it quit when it found that "Remote machine not 8 bit clean" or
> some such. I'd really like to get this working soon, so any help would be
> appreciated (Yes, I've looked on the 'net, and yes, I did change the login
> scripts, and no, I'm not a Unix hotshot). Thanks!
>  -- Steve
> 
> 
> 

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