On Saturday 02 September 2006 12:10, Alan wrote: > I was correct... I typed in man pppd this time and see thae error 10 and > I think it means it didnt start to talk after connecting. > I then tried connecting with minicom.... connected fine and asked for > login and password > I tried them three times and each time it came back > failed authentication.... now I know I typed in the correct login name > and also after the first time I was very careful that I typed in the > exact password, so I am baffled AGAIN. That's correct, minicom is just a terminal emulator, it does not do the CHAP/PAP authentication stuff, or set up a TCP/IP connection.
> Wow Andrew I sure seem to be making a habit of the non-preferred > schemes dont I !!! We've all had to start somewhere. > I would be happy to purchase one off you that will work with this set up. The one mentioned a few messages ago would be ideal. http://www.ascent.co.nz/ProductSpecification.aspx?ItemID=109308 otoh, there are people on the list who are using Lucent/Agere modems with the ltmodem drivers very successfully. Has anybody actually rebuilt the kernel for Alan from recent sources and, using the same kernel sources and compiler, compiled and installed the lt_modem and lt_serial modules from source i.e. http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/ltmodem-2.6-alk-8.tar.bz2 [ Yes I know this should not be needed, but everybody makes mistakes and I know form bitter experience that Linux Distributors are not an exception. ] -- CS
