On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, "Shanna Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having a very hard time getting connected to the internet. I am
> reletively new to linux, though I have been fighting with it for years. I
> like the format, but getting onto the net has always been a problem for me.
I assume you are using ppp to connect, if so the following is a very useful
url:
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
If you follow the steps to the letter you can debug most connection
problems (it instructs on how to get much debugging info out into
the syslog, and how to interpret it).
Karl Runge
Top part of above page:
How to hook up PPP in Linux
W.G. Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
Reason for Document
The key problem in hooking up a PPP link to an Internet Service
Provider (ISP) is that the ISP's seem to compete with each other as to
who can find another obscure way of authenticating users. Thus we have
login, PAP, CHAP 05, CHAP80, CHAP80-lanman, CHAP81, ... and
combinations of these. The chief difficulty of connecting to an ISP is
discovering which technique is actually being used by the ISP in an
orderly way. Since few of them know anything about Linux, and since few
of them even understand what technique they actually use, this
procedure should allow you to set up without their help, or to
understand what their help means if it is given.
The following has a number of steps to connecting to your ISP. The
temptation is to skip steps. This is a bad idea, as it will almost
certainly lead to grief. Do each step and you will succeed, and you
will also learn something about your system in the process.
...
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