On Sunday 03 September 2006 23:10, Alan wrote: > Hi Nick > Well given time I guess some thing has to seep thru even the thickest > hunk of wood LOL. > Now in minicom I did not get an echo back (it showed the user name as I > typed it in)of the user name but it drops down a line and asks for the > password to be entered, then after entering that(it echos nothing back > at all--the cursor does not move) That's correct. After all you do not want somebody who happens to be passing behind you to be able to see your login password.
> I think it says Authentication refused (or something similar). There are two things that stuff up passwords for the unwary. The shift lock key is pressed - you don't see the password in all uppercase. In ye olden days, having the parity bit incorrectly set. I suppose it's very remotely possible that that is the trouble. [ ... ] > Currently I do run three specialist ham programs which will not be in > the CD that I got from the States. One of them although it is a PSK > program and there are a couple of those on the disk, I had a look at porting a PSK program from windows to Linux a few years ago, and came to the conclusion that doing so would be a task of some considerable difficulty. I forget the exact details now, but one was that the windows program was a huge monolith which took complete control of the sound card and serial port. It was a DSP which did all sorts of very high power maths tricks to extract characters out of the noise. [ ... ] Alan: I have a very old '486 which is not in use. It's currently set up with IPCop. I also have an ISA USRobotics modem which I could put in it. At the moment both of these items are gathering dust. You could borrow them both on a long term basis if you like. This would give you a reliable firewalled gateway on to the Internet for both of the machines in your room. So that a second string to the bow if we cannot get your existing hardware to go. I'll bring it to the St. Albans meeting on the 12th Sept. ( I do not want to lose ownership of either, particularly the modem, because at some time I might well move, and want a reliable method of getting on line using the good old POTS ) -- CS
