From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 11:37:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21294 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21050 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:36:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13835; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:36:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:36:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Andrew S. Patterson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980218001449.00947670@pop.service.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > ----------- > "It takes two to tumble. It takes two to tango. > Speak up; don't mumble if you're in the combo." - Elvis Costello > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message