Mark Tomlinson wrote:
>>>>In any case, the winmodem is not the problem, because the ISA modem was
>>>>the same result. Connects, then line dropped after <Enter> at the login:
>>>>prompt.
>>>
>
> So if you don't press enter the connection stays up???
>
> This is a guess (so I'm too scared to respond to the list...) but I'm
> assuming your ISP does not expect you to use a login/password at this login
> prompt, but rather go straight into sending PPP packets. The actual
> authentication takes places somewhere in the PPP options, and not at the
> login/password prompts. The reason for hanging up when you press enter may
> be that the ISP does not support any shell access, and this is their way of
> saying that....
Bingo! I selected the "Let PPP do all authentication" box and it all
worked. Thanks Mark.
I don't want the list behaviour to frighten off people with wild guesses
to a posed problem. Perhaps we ("the-list") should be more polite?
Anyway, the reason PPP wasn't doing authentication anymore (and giving
me this problem) was because I upgraded RH7.2 to RH7.3 I don't know why
it would have changed my settings. I did the upgrade to try and fix a
kernel panic on boot, but it didn't help.
The kernel panic problem turned out to be because I was missing the
/initrd directory. The error message wasn't particularly helpful. If
anyone hasn't seen the kernel panic before, this is a nice easy way to
do it :-)
Cheers,
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