From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 16 10:52:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop3pub.verizon.net (smtppop3pub.gte.net [206.46.170.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6E137B66F for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gte.net (tamqfl1-ar1-200-230.biz.dsl.gtei.net [4.35.200.230]) by smtppop3pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id MAA31529607 Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:48:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39EB4089.384B87FB@gte.net> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:53:13 -0400 From: Tom Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-AOL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: derchung lin Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp to MSN and/or AOL? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For sure AOL uses proprietary software and you CANNOT log in without it just using your normal username & password. Don't know if MSN does the same tho. Tom Collins derchung lin wrote: > Microsoft and AOL are my Internet service providers. > I have problem connecting from a PC with FreeBSD to Microsft using ppp. > When I tried ppp xxx and term and then atd2680582 (Microsoft phone # in my > area), I got prompt for user name and password. After that I got "bad > password". This happened when I tried another connection to AOL account. > > Any help? Thanks. > > Tom > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message