Re: [aclug-L] PPP

[Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

if you're having trouble, give southwind a call...they were very friendly in
helping my setup my linux box...

John Reinke wrote:

> 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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