Comment "ISP doesn't handle Linux"? (Score 1) 205
Try adding "@ppp" to the end of your username when you log on.
I installed linux at a friend's house and got ppp set up. When I dialed in to his ISP on minicom, type the user name and password, you get a whole lot of garbage characters under the login. So, I thought, success!, until pppd wouldn't start.
For some reason, I decided to boot into Windows NT on his machine, and dialed in to his ISP using hyperterminal - well, it brought up a full color bbs screen (presumably the color escape characters were the garbage I was seeing in minicom) with no option for starting ppp.
He had some manuals for his ISP which he'd printed out in something like 1990 which said to type username@slip at the login: prompt. We then tried using username@ppp, and it worked.
Apparently this is somewhat common, as he didn't need to open a terminal window or use a dial-up networking script in Windows NT.
I installed linux at a friend's house and got ppp set up. When I dialed in to his ISP on minicom, type the user name and password, you get a whole lot of garbage characters under the login. So, I thought, success!, until pppd wouldn't start.
For some reason, I decided to boot into Windows NT on his machine, and dialed in to his ISP using hyperterminal - well, it brought up a full color bbs screen (presumably the color escape characters were the garbage I was seeing in minicom) with no option for starting ppp.
He had some manuals for his ISP which he'd printed out in something like 1990 which said to type username@slip at the login: prompt. We then tried using username@ppp, and it worked.
Apparently this is somewhat common, as he didn't need to open a terminal window or use a dial-up networking script in Windows NT.
