David....try appending an uppercase P before the first character of your
login name. For instance, if your login is dhart, then change it to
Pdhart. That's what I have to do with my ISP.
Alan
David Hart wrote:
>
> This is kind of a shot in the dark, but maybe somebody out there will
> have a clue. One of the local dial-up ISP's I use recently mergered with a
> larger organization, and part of the process involved making the old DNS
> servers and other local hardware redundant, as well as "upgrading" their lines
> (and possibly other hardware). Before these changes, I had no problems using
> KPPP to establish a connection. Just plug in the DNS and phone numbers and off
> we go. But since the changes were made, I get nothing. To be precise, I dial
> up, it logs in, everything seems fine, but Netscape goes nowhere. The
> connection seems to be there, but addresses never resolve and I'm left
> looking at a blank browser window forever. Same thing applies with any other
> net utility I try. Now the weird thing is that using exactly the same
> configuration from Dial-Up Networking on my win98 partition works just fine.
> Same DNS, same everything, except it actually works.
> Now, of course, the ISP doesn't support linux and haven't been
> particularly forecoming about PPP changes they made. So does anybody have a
> guess I could try? The authorization protocol isn't the problem, so I'm
> guessing there might be some PPP parameters that dial-up networking can figure
> out on it's own, but need to be manually entered for KPPP.
> Help?
>
> --
> David Hart
> Vincity Design
> *Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
