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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

> > When I say ppp-on,  I see on the screen about as follows:
> > 
> > Serial connection established
> > Connect:  ppp0 <-> /dev/ttyS3
> > Remote message:  FASTNET_RAS
> > PAP authorization   FAILED
> 
> This is a user/password problem.  Don't worry about the
> idle, baud, tty and phone entries.  They are OK.  You either 
> have some sort of typographical error in your user/password 
> or your ISP has changed it's authentication server or that 
> server is malfunctioning or you have a permission problem 
> somewhere (eznet gets tripped up on permissions very easily).
> 
> 1st question:  are you able to log on to that account using
> '              a different OS/browser?

Yes, been using that user name and password for years with Windows, as 
right now.

> 2nd question:  are you running BL2 as root?

Yes. Although I moved all the files from G:/BL  to  C:/BL.
Should I re-expand the files to that directory  from the original zip file?

> 3rd question:  are you running BL2 on the same hardware where
> it succeeded previously

Yes, it's my ASUS P5A computer with two hard drives; C: and D: are on one 
drive, E:, F: and G: on the other.
BasicLinux puts itself in a RAMdrive.

> > the eznet.conf from my DOS/Win HD, which I edit (pppsetup) 
> > into the one on the BL RAMdisk after booting and mounting.
> 
> It is possible that this process is introducing a permission
> problem or some other error.  I suggest you do a clean boot
> and enter the pppsetup data by hand, and see if that connects.

I tried, no success. Will look again at permissions.

Got through to their support staff, was told   We don't support Linux much.

He did give me addresses for nameservers to put into /var/resolv.conf ??
But that wouldn't affect authenticating?

Thanks,

Sheldon Isaac