Re: [aclug-L] PPP

[John Reinke <ufotofu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is curious. There's no reason to my knowledge why you can't connect
specfically to SouthWind. I followed John Goerzen's help page on the ACLUG
site, and it worked perfectly. I don't even have a major distribution of
Linux - I have LinuxPPC. I know several people (including a few SouthWind
employees) that connect to SouthWind with Linux as well. If you haven't
tried John's help page, go to (and print out):

http://www.aclug.org/ispconn/southwind/

Make sure everything is exactly the same, including all the other files.
This needs to be run from a console, but perhaps someone more qualified
than I can assist you further with a GUI connection method.

John


>I know that some of you have been following, and trying
>to help me with, my attempts to configure my linux box
>to connect to the internet. Well, tonight I finally did
>it, but not through my ISP (Southwind) rather through
>another ISP (PowwwerNet). I used the network config
>tool in xwindows. Just on a lark, I configured another
>ppp interface to PowwwerNet to see what would happen.
>It connected and set up the ppp connection first try.
>So, it seems that my problem is with Southwind and not
>the internet in general. That begs the question, what
>is it about Southwind, or my setup, that is keeping me
>from establishing a ppp conection? I don't really want
>to change ISP's, so I hate to consider that. I would
>much rather learn from this and find out what the
>problem with Southwind, or me, is. Any ideas?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Wayne


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