Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.
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?
>
> 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.
> 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.
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