Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-26 Thread ben
On Friday 25 January 2002 10:34 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: >Sorry you had such a crummy experience with them. Mine has been fine, > outside of the sort of occasional screwups that happen with any huge > company. But I just use them for carriage service. [snip] i know of someone whose dialup w

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-26 Thread Bruce Burhans
Xeno Campanoli wrote: _ Bruce Burhans wrote: > > Is Earthlink Linux friendly? [Actually, David Teague wrote that. My experience is that Earthlink is slimy. They ended up having a mysterious account they billed me for that I didn't order and they ke

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-25 Thread Bruce Burhans
Is Earthlink Linux friendly? Can I use Kermit or other terminal program to talk to it? Will it respond to a normal PPP connection? --David My connection uses PPP and UDP, and TCP/IP I have a 56k ac link voice modem. The authentication is MD5 CHAP, no compression on link, but is enabled

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-25 Thread David Teague
Is Earthlink Linux friendly? Can I use Kermit or other terminal program to talk to it? Will it respond to a normal PPP connection? --David On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote: > On 1/24/2002 @ 1:41 AM, Ben wrote: > > [snip] > > the @ in the login wouldn't influence the network behavior

Re: Earthlink Dialup-Jason

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Yes. > > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > > about > > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > > > > I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This > > is quite an adven

Re: Earthlink Dialup-Ben

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
On Thursday 24 January 2002 02:00 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Ben wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 1:10PM > > [snip] > > > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > about > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > >

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > > about > > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > > > > I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This > > is quite an adventure. Wi

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread ben
On Thursday 24 January 2002 02:00 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Ben wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 1:10PM > > [snip] > > > before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information > about > the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. > >

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Ben wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 1:10PM [snip] before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information about the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This is quite

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Thanks Jason. Copied to hard drive (literally) Bruce

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread ben
On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:59 am, Bruce Burhans wrote: [snip] > > I'll probably just re-install, putting XPernicious on a 10G primary > partition, and Debian on a 10G extended partition with /, Home, and Swap > on logical partitions. Am worried about that "boot must be on first 1024 > cyl

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
Jason Majors wrote, on 1/24/02 @ 12:19PM > I'll probably just re-install, putting XPernicious on a 10G primary > partition, and Debian on a 10G extended partition with /, Home, and Swap > on logical partitions. Am worried about that "boot must be on first 1024 > cylinders" thing, though.

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
D. wrote, on 1/24/02: I think that FIPS will do what you want done. Its a non-distructive repartationing program that I have used and works great and its free. Do a search on www.google.com, that is how I found it. Don --- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you have to log on t

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread D.
I think that FIPS will do what you want done. Its a non-distructive repartationing program that I have used and works great and its free. Do a search on www.google.com, that is how I found it. Don --- Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your >

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
> Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your full e-mail address > and password, but my Internet Explorer does this automatically. And IE > is *all* I use. I only signed up with EL *because* I wouldn't have to > use their software. > The next step, of course, is to get rid of IE. I'm re

Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Burhans
On 1/24/2002 @ 1:41 AM, Ben wrote: [snip] the @ in the login wouldn't influence the network behavior, and i know from an acquaintance who's also on earthlink--using a mac--that she has to login with her full email address. on win & mac, subscribers have to download proprietary dialup software an