At 09:44 AM 1/9/2001 -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:
>On 8 Jan, Giannis Mastrogiorgis wrote:
> > Hi list !!!!!
> >
> > I'am writing you from beautifull greece.
> > I have a problem with my MOTOROLA MC 143450 RDK MODEM.
> > I am calling to an ISP and i can get in i'm writing the username and
> password and i choose PPP protocol for my internet connection . After
> then i get lots of unknown words like "@#%&)&#^$%&^$" and my connection breaks
> >
> > H E L P ! ! !
> > PS I am using Mandrake 7.0
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your time
> >
> >
> > GREATING FROM GREECE !!!!!!!!!
>
>It may be that you require pap or chap authentication, which is different
>from login/password authentication. There's a page on the Web that describes
>all this in detail for Linux. If you need more info, reply to me and I'll
>try to send you the URL tonight.
I had a problem like this back when i tried to use a motorola modem, it
would connect but ppp never seemed to get going. It turned out that it was
a winmodem, i replaced it with an extranal supra an it started working, not
sure if you have an internal modem or not.
just my two cents worth.
jack
