Re: MSN access with wvdial not working.

To: Debian User Group <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: MSN access with wvdial not working.
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 28 May 2001 21:00:57 -0500
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In-reply-to: Hall Stevenson's message of "Mon, 28 May 2001 21:35:11 -0500"
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Hall Stevenson writes:
> I believe MSN uses a proprietary or "extended" form of either PAP or CHAP
> authentication so you may not be able to get it to work at all.

It's MSCHAP80, and the Debian pppd is patched for it, IIRC.  Read
/usr/share/doc/ppp/README.MSCHAP80.gz for more details, but it should just
work.  Run pppconfig, configure for CHAP, and try pon.  You might have a
bit of trouble figuring out what to use for a username and password.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

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