[hsflinux] connect to internet

[Jean-Simon Durand]

Hi,

most ISP's use PAP and not CHAP. I'm not sure about AOL, but I think there
is a good chance that they use PAP. As Tony suggested, you can try kppp
since it's easier to configure.

If you don't have kppp, then I would suggest reading the PPP howto or a
similar document.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/PPP-HOWTO/

To see if your modem works, you should test it with a terminal program like
minicom.

Jean-Simon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mengxiong Gong" <mgong758 at hotmail.com>
To: <hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: [hsflinux] connect to internet


Hi,
I have dual system in my computer (WIndows 98 and Linux RedHat 7.3, Kernel
2.4.18-3) and modem is Conexant soft 56k PCI modem. My ISP is AOL ( I use
AOL 8.0 now). The connection to internet in my windows system is fine for
everything, but I just could NOT connect to internet in Linux system (gave
me the message: "CHAP authentication failed, connection terminated. Check
your username and password". Actually, my username and password are
absolutely correct)

Is there somebady who has experienced this kind of problem? which version of
AOL or Earthlink works for Linux?, or I may have different probelms other
than incompatibility of AOL software with Linux?

I greatly appreciate for your help.

Michael Gong