From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 12 05:22:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA25265 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 05:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA25259 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 05:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id HAA13793; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 07:22:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199706121222.HAA13793@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: your mail To: mabrenio@phix.com (mark abrenio) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 07:22:22 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199706120601.XAA05316@phix.com> from mark abrenio at "Jun 11, 97 11:01:20 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, mark abrenio said: > i need some help.my isp is set up really wierd.you know how on most you dial them up and it gives you a login and password prompt.well mine doesnt.as soon asyou connect it gives me all kindsof bull like > > }}%#^*%$%}{?><}{ > > > you know,,stuff like that.it connects ok in windows,,you know that dial up networking thing.i can connect with that.but in freebsd i cant.because when i dial them up on minicom it gives me all that stuff.and there is no way for me to type in my password > > and login name.i would really appreciate any help.surely there issomeone ou there who has had this problem! > > mark.. > It's very difficult to read mail like this. Please, use capitalization where appropriate, and put in line breaks at about 75 characters. Sounds pretty normal to me. Instead of a login prompt, your ISP is using PAP or CHAP and is directly starting PPP. Enable PAP or CHAP in you ppp.conf and see what happens. Paul. -- "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder, Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.