At 04:18 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote: > >> i finally just killed the process supporting the mouse... i guess there is >> a way in some init control file to prevent it from starting gpm. > >/etc/rc*.d/*gpm > >> Serial connection established. >> Using interface ppp0 >> Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 >> >> then... it reports pairs of LCP ConfReq and ConfNak messages >> it looks like each one is echoed back immediately... >> after ten pairs, it reports: >> >> Serial line is looped back >> >> and shuts down. : ( >> onr thing i notice is that the connection was at 14.4 and my options >> show 38.4... however, i can read the banner, etc and the password was >> passed ok. > >The chatscript probably finished before the provider was ready for ppp to >start. Dial in with something like minicom, and do the process by hand. >There is probably something at the end you forgot. > >Good luck, >Brandon > > >hi
thanks for the reply. (blush) i had the wrong password for logging in....... it starts with a captial P, not lower case. now i can ping with abandon all over the net. now i am back to work finding how to get my mail from the isp's mail server. should i use elm or pine or...?? do they work like Eudora and go thru a connection dialog with the mail server every so often?? i re-configured my smail for network. any other suggestions? thanx again dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .