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 Don't use wvdial.

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 think the

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? This thing has a

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 too.

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. They

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 use kppp.

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

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 made sense to me.

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 to

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 system

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 login prompt and

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

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 that in ppp

[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: Sending: ATZ