On 6 Sep, Jim Reimer wrote:
> Having trouble with PPP (or getting set up to use PPP, I guess).
> When dialing with minicom, one ISP dumps me straight into a shell
> when I connect (after having to enter my password twice for some
> reason), and the other one that I use puts garbage on the screen
> as soon as the connection is established (wrong parity?).
It's likely that the "garbage" may be PPP trying to negotiate
immediately. In that case it may be that the user name and password are
passed to your ISP as part of the PPP negotiation (using PAP). This
might be a GOOD thing in other words :)
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Scott Felton
Slackware Linux
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