[hcflinux] making progress

[George Bell]

patrick reen wrote:

> Went to minicom - initalized modem went to "d" dial page, manually 
> entered isp phone # it rang and connected after about 25 sec [this is 
> my usual time] then asked me for my connect name and password I 
> entered them but got message login failed - incorrectname/password - 
> "login failed reason = 
> [-189,nwknj44ev,1053105253-001,nykny19rh04hp017]    OOOOOH I'M SOOOO 
> EXCITED    some progress butI don't understand the error message - I'm 
> POSITIVE I entered the correct  name and password I usually use with 
> my isp    - also still can't get internect connect wizard to activate 
> my modem still says no modem found.
>
Congrats.  At least we have established that your hardware is working. 
 The failure to login from the minicom terminal may have something to do 
with requirements for secure channels, encrypted passwords, etc.  I am 
not sure - it has been years since I used a dialup modem for internet 
access.  If you're still having problems getting the communications 
programs going in gnome and so forth I'd try one of the linux 
newsgroups:   comp.os.linux.misc  comp.os.linux.hardware , in that 
order.  I've gotten lots of help over a long time through that.

Good luck,
George