On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:40:34PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:08:11PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > > password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now > > I get 3 prompts: "user name", "password", and "AiiNET" where before I > > just got the 2 prompts "user name" and "password". The ISP would not > > help saying that they don't support Linux. The ISP has a monopoly out > > here is rural Alberta, Canada. Since there are some very experienced > > people on the list maybe someone has run into this third prompt. As I > > said, it is a relatively new prompt which does not always occur (and I > > have a somewhat clumsy work-around). Has anyone else run into this > > situation where the "AiiNET" prompt occurs during manual dial up? In the > > following paragraph I provide more detail. > > I've never seen an "AiiNET" prompt. What is the required response?
It sounds like you may be seeing a PPP response and misinterpretinging it. Does it wait for you to hit 'enter' or something, or does it just continue without your interaction. > > > > > I use a package called "minicom" on a Linux machine running Slackware > > which is my lan gateway machine to the Internet via dial up to my ISP. I > > don't think "minicom" is a debian package (but it may be by some other > > name).. > > Minicom is a normal debian package. If it can be done in Windows Hyperterm, minicom can do it. > > > I am gradually migrating my lan Linux machines over to Debian > > but still have to maintain this Slackware unit until I can get a fast > > Internet connection and the switch or router will head end everything. > > Why? What can Slackware do that Debian can't? You don't need a fast > internect connetion to run Debian. > > > I am not sure if the question is about minicom or about the ISP. When > > the dial up connection is lost minicom is not evoked and so Linux > > brings up the connection automatically. > > I don't understand what you're saying here. > > > Initially using minicom basically sets up the dial up modem and > > thereafter all interaction with the ISP is automatic. So when it is > > automatic I don't really know the details of the interaction. > > You should only need to use minicom to set up a modem once ever (unless > you need to reprogram it again later). You should be able to set up > pppconfig to issue whatever connection strings you need. > > Doug. > 99.99% of coputer traffic uses stanards-compliant protocols, and for low speed analog phone communication, that would be PPP. So pon, seyon, or wvdial should be able to handle it. These have manual and dial-on-demand functions. So get pppconfig or wvdialconf and it should only take a few minutes to set it up. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
