When trying to connect to MSN, dialer starts up PPPD then fails… I think
its due to the fact that MSN doesnt support LCP Extensions to PPP… I
couldnt find anywhere to disable this in Dialer, as one would do in
Windoze…
For the curious…
How to install MSN as a dialup provider…
-
Get an access number from your windoze partition…
-
Set up a dialer profile as you would for any other DHCP connection…
-
when prompted for a username, use MSN/
(THIS IS CASE SENSITIVE for the prefix)
-
Connect as any other provider, and use your normal MSN dialup password
See MS KB Q166090 MSN Support in Windows NT for more information
-John
John Palaima <jolt@msn.com> wrote:
When trying to connect to MSN, dialer starts up PPPD then fails… I think
its due to the fact that MSN doesnt support LCP Extensions to PPP… I
couldnt find anywhere to disable this in Dialer, as one would do in
Windoze…
Can you run phdialer -d in a pterm, try to connect the MSN, and
after it failed, post/send me the syslog output or the output in
dialer’s “goto terminal” window.
I suspect this is a pppd bug we discovered after the release
If you wish, you could also try:
-
Download a fixed pppd at http://staff.qnx.com/xtang/repository/pppd
-
copy it to /usr/sbin
-
chown root.bin /usr/sbin/pppd
-
chmod a+x,u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
-
rerun the phdialer see if it works for you.
-xtang
For the curious…
How to install MSN as a dialup provider…
-
Get an access number from your windoze partition…
-
Set up a dialer profile as you would for any other DHCP connection…
-
when prompted for a username, use MSN/<userid
(THIS IS CASE SENSITIVE for the prefix)
-
Connect as any other provider, and use your normal MSN dialup password
See MS KB Q166090 MSN Support in Windows NT for more information
-John