Re: Help connecting with earthlink

[Stephen A. Witt]

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Obi wrote:

 hello,
 
 I'm trying to setup my linux box to connect to earthlink, but with no luck.
 I've done that quite a few times with different ISPs, but this time I cannot
 set it up. 
 
 It works fine under windows98, but under linux no. This is the important part
 of the log:
 Mar 17 15:08:08 harp pppd[1139]: Using interface ppp0
 Mar 17 15:08:08 harp pppd[1139]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem
 Mar 17 15:08:39 harp pppd[1139]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
 Mar 17 15:08:39 harp pppd[1139]: Connection terminated.
 Mar 17 15:08:39 harp pppd[1139]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
 
 Should I set some CHAP/PAP things? Can you help?
 
 thanks
 graziano
 

I'm a happy Earthlink customer and when I set up my connection with them
I found that the prompt strings that they use are a little different from
the default, etc. I'm not at home now so I can't remember exactly what
they are. Also I'm using diald, but this should make no difference. How I
solved the problem was by using minicom to manually dial the modem and
then look at the prompt strings that Earthlink sends out. If I recall
correctly the 'login' and 'user' prompt strings are a little different
than the default. Once I changed these in the diald connect file (the
'expect' script) it worked great.
 
Hope this helps...

Re: Help connecting with Earthlink

[Gary Singleton]

I switched to Earthlink a couple of months ago and tried many, many
different configurations (PAP, CHAP, whatever) until I realized I had
to put in my username as ELN/username in place of just username
that I had become accustomed to.  Apparently it's because they lease
they're dial up numbers from Sprint (at least here in Boise, ID).

HTH, Gary Singleton




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Help connecting with earthlink

[Obi]

hello,

I'm trying to setup my linux box to connect to earthlink, but with no luck.
I've done that quite a few times with different ISPs, but this time I cannot
set it up. 

It works fine under windows98, but under linux no. This is the important part
of the log:
Mar 17 15:08:08 harp pppd[1139]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 17 15:08:08 harp pppd[1139]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem
Mar 17 15:08:39 harp pppd[1139]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Mar 17 15:08:39 harp pppd[1139]: Connection terminated.
Mar 17 15:08:39 harp pppd[1139]: Hangup (SIGHUP)

Should I set some CHAP/PAP things? Can you help?

thanks
graziano

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