[gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-05-29 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm trying to switch ISPs over to Bell South. I can not get it to connect up though. I have tried wvdial and Kppp with no luck. This is what I am getting. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # wvdial > WvDial<*1>: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56 > WvDial<*1>: Initializing modem. > WvDial<*1>: Send

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:25, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to switch ISPs over to Bell South. I can not get it to >> connect up though. I have tried wvdial and Kppp with no luck. This is >> what I am getting. >> > [snip] > >> I did a google search and nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:25, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to switch ISPs over to Bell South. I can not get it to > connect up though. I have tried wvdial and Kppp with no luck. This is > what I am getting. [snip] > > I did a google search and nothing made sense to me. I did try adding >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: > On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It > starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. > The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login > prompt and my system does know what t

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: > > >> On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It >> starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. >> The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login >> prompt and my

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It >>> starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. >>> The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 June 2007 23:24, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > Well, that didn't help any. I also forgot to mention that I do have it > set up on Kppp to use pap/chap. It doesn't work either. I don't know > where LCP came from. Any way to force it to disable that in ppp options? You can use the op

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 23:24, Dale wrote: > >> Dale wrote: >> > > >> Well, that didn't help any. I also forgot to mention that I do have it >> set up on Kppp to use pap/chap. It doesn't work either. I don't know >> where LCP came from. Any way to force it to disable tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 June 2007 04:16, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Friday 01 June 2007 23:24, Dale wrote: > > As far as I can > > figure they say that you should have correction control and compression > > enabled on your modem. Can yours do that? > > This thing has a ton of options in it. But I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 02 June 2007 04:16, Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: >> >>> On Friday 01 June 2007 23:24, Dale wrote: >>> > > >>> As far as I can >>> figure they say that you should have correction control and compression >>> enabled on your modem. Can yours do that? >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 June 2007, Dale wrote: > I wish I could get DSL of any kind out here but it is not available > yet. The last upgrade we got on our phone service is when we got off > the party line system. That's where 3 or 4 people share the same phone > line. Yea, that old. They killed my apple tree to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I wish I could get DSL of any kind out here but it is not available >yet. The last upgrade we got on our phone service is when we got off >the party line system. That's where 3 or 4 people share the same phone >line. Yea, that old. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread maxim wexler
Scuse me for jumping in mid-thread. I use old USR serial modems for dialup. I get em at the local thrift store for 5 bucks. Never had a problem. The lights _are_ useful. The switches on the back are set like this: HHLHLHHL 12345678 Don't use wvdial. Don't use kppp. Use pppconfig. HTH Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: > Scuse me for jumping in mid-thread. > > I use old USR serial modems for dialup. I get em at > the local thrift store for 5 bucks. Never had a > problem. The lights _are_ useful. The switches on the > back are set like this: > > HHLHLHHL > 12345678 > > Don't use wvdial. Don't u

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 June 2007 18:44, Roger Mason wrote: > You may already have seen this, in which case sorry for the noise: > > http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html Thanks Roger! I hadn't met it in my travels, but it seems an exceptionally useful document for all things dial up. :) Will cer

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > >> Scuse me for jumping in mid-thread. >> >> I use old USR serial modems for dialup. I get em at >> the local thrift store for 5 bucks. Never had a >> problem. The lights _are_ useful. The switches on the >> back are set like this: >> >> HHLHLHHL >> 12345678 >