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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:36:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Andrew S. Patterson" <patterson.213@osu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218113604.13769M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980218001449.00947670@pop.service.ohio-state.edu>

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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Andrew S. Patterson wrote:

> I have tried to install freebsd (2.2.2 i believe it was).  Install had a
> few hitches, mostly things i didn't think about at first but it did
> install.  The one problem I had that I could not resolve by myself or with
> anyone else's help was this:  when I dialed up to my isp it asked for my
> username and pass, which I typed correctly, but then the connection would
> time out because of lack of authentication of some sort.  This is the only
> reason I am not using freebsd, if I could solve this problem I would be
> most happy.  Any ideas?  Could it be my isp, or did I not set something up
> right?

Your ISP probably wants PAP authentication. See
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/userppp.html for hits.

> 
> 
> 						Thanks,
> 						    Drew
> 
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Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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