2009/11/17 Arun Khan <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday 18 Nov 2009, Philip Tellis wrote: >> 2009/11/15 Philip Tellis <[email protected]>: >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > I had set up my dad's laptop running Ubuntu to connect to >> > Youtelecom broadband using pppoe. Everything has been running fine >> > for many years and suddenly on Saturday it stopped working. It >> > connects to the net and immediately disconnects. The Youtelecom >> > support guys are unable to help as none of them know anything about >> > linux and I'm on the other side of the world so unless he can >> > actually connect to the Internet, there's nothing much I can do to >> > debug the issue.
> It is possible that the userid/password for your Dad's setup may have > been changed on the YouTelecom side or your Dad's system may be b0rked. Well, it connects to the net, and I even see him come online in Skype, but then it disconnects immediately after that, so the userid & password are correct. Someone is going over to check out his system so he should be fine. Thanks everyone. Philip -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
