Fwd: Help logging onto ISP via KPPP

[Jeffrey Rolland <jrolland@softhome.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>
> Date: October 7, 2006 8:10:19 PM CDT
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Help logging onto ISP via KPPP
>
> On Saturday 07 October 2006 23:39, Jeffrey Rolland wrote:
> > Hello, all!
> >
> > I am a Debian newbie who has recently had Debian 3.1r2 "Sarge"
> > installed onto an Old World Power Macintosh 7500/100 running KDE, and
> > I am now trying to log onto my dial-up ISP with KPPP.
> >
> > My ISP, Ticon.net, does not officially support Linux, so I cannot get
> > them to help troubleshoot the connection, but they do state that they
> > use PAP authentication. I have tried PAP, CHAP, PAP/CHAP, terminal-
> > based, everything I can think of, even pppconfig and pon, but nothing
> > works.
>
> Have you tried wvdial ?  It might provide you with information  
> about why the
> connection is not working.

I can't get online, so I can't use aptitude to get wvdial or anything  
else.

I will certainly try that (once I get online with HalNet) with Ticon.

Sincerely,
--
Jeffrey Rolland
<jrolland@softhome.net>