Baslinux mailing list

[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

Rob,
  The only way I could get my ISP to accept my user login is to use the
complete login with numbers instead of letters. For example my login is
"myusername"(note all letters) but I had to use:
1234567899 AT worldnet.att.net (which was supplied by at&t). Its like every
URL has a "something.com" address and they also have a coresponding
number address (204.127.129.1)--if you get my drift.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Rob Heard wrote:

> Hi.  I've just started trying to use basic linux and am having a
> problem with the ppp connection.  I've used pppsetup to input the
> required info.  ppp-on causes the modem to do all the right things for
> about 15 seconds, but then it drops out. The session info file shows
> that it dials up nicely, but fails at the user login.  It seems to be
> sending the right username, but the file shows that it's sending seven
> asterisks when asked for the password - there are only 6 characters in
> the password.  I don't know if this is the problem.  I've tried
> retyping the password, adding spaces at the end, removing spaces,
> replacing my username with the full username and address, but have
> totally failed.  I also tried versions 1.7 & 1.8 as well as the
> current version.  The same thing happened with all of them.  Any
> suggestions would be welcome.
>
> The machine is an old 486 DX with 8M RAM.  It works fine with DOS
> dialups like dosppp and lsppp to the same modem bank, which uses unix
> and hasn't previously been tricky.  I haven't asked the IT helpdesk
> because they only support Windows.
>
> Cheers,  Rob Heard
> _______________________________________________
> BasLinux mailing list
> BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux
>