Re: [aclug-L] PPP

[Wayne White <wwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:13 AM 10/9/1998 -0500, you 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
>
>

Yeah, that was the first thing I tried. It didn't work, so I double checked
everything and tried it again. It still didn't work, so I reinstalled linux
and followed John's instructions again. It still didn't work, so I double 
checked everything and tried it again. Then I tried to connect with Red Hat's
net config X-tool. That wouldn't connect either. Tried it a couple of more 
times, nothing doing. Then I thought, maybe try another ISP, shazam, it
worked. Yes, that leaves me very confused. My guess is that it is something
I am overlooking, but I don't know what, and no one else has guessed it
either. Oh well, at least I know it is possible to get a ppp connection now,
and that knowledge shall keep me trying for a SW connection. Oh, I can
connect to SW in a shell with minicom, just not ppp. That's pretty handy,
but I still need ppp.

Thanks for the advice,

Wayne

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