this may be as simple as extending your timeouts or trying a different DNS
server number. I use Earthlink and connect with mandrake with no problem. are
you using kppp or ifup ppp0? the dns servers numbers I find work for me wiith
earthlink are 207.217.77.82 and 207.217.126.81
On Sun, 10 Sep 200
Roger Sherman wrote:
>
> Hi! This is my second go-round with Linux; the first was very brief
> (couldn't get my cheesy 810 vid card configured. Thank god for 7.1!),
> so I didn't stick around long enough to actually learn anything,
> unfortunately. But, now its all installed, the vid card is work
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
>
> With one exception. Can't log on to Earthlink.
>
> Now, I was able to call Earthlink customer support when I installed
> 7.0, and they talked me right through it (this was about 6 months
> ago). But they've stopped offering cust support for linux, due to the
>
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 22:20:45 -0400, you wrote:
>Roger:
>I checked my settings and Earthlink's site:
>1. The correct username format is ELN/username.
>2. The primary DNS address is 207.217.126.81. The two that you show are
>the secondary DNS addresses.
OK, that would prolly help, eh? :-)
>3. Yo
Hi! This is my second go-round with Linux; the first was very brief
(couldn't get my cheesy 810 vid card configured. Thank god for 7.1!),
so I didn't stick around long enough to actually learn anything,
unfortunately. But, now its all installed, the vid card is working, my
modem is dialing, everyt
