[ale] need working dial up

[Calvin Harrigan]

William Bagwell wrote:

>On Thursday 16 December 2004 03:33 pm, Mark Wright wrote:
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>>Is any one using a Linux machine with a modem.   I am willing to buy an
>>internal or another external or really anything that will make it work.
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>AFAIK all old ISA slot and externals work.  Only an occasional bit of 
>mucking around in KPPP if it "thinks" it has found it on the wrong port.
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>There are a few PCI modens which are *supposed* to work... Never had a bit 
>of luck with any of them.
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>Currently using a USR 5686 external through SmoothWall. Before SW I did all 
>configuration directly in KPPP. Found that any done during install or 
>through a "Wizard" was a waste of time. 
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>Are you using the correct user name and password for her ISP? Looks like you 
>are conecting then getting kicked off.
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Now that you mention the correct username/password combo, I think 
earthlink uses some goofy way of entering those.  You either have to 
prepend or append something to the username before it will let you login 
using a standard dialer.  The details elude me right now, haven't had 
earthlink for couple years.

Yes, I know prepend isn't a real word...  :-/

Calvin...