[Sussex] Dial-up twice

[Jon Fautley]

Mike Diack wrote:
> Crumbs!
> I'm amazed, I never managed to get Freeserve to work with Linux, when I last
> tried in in Dec 2002.

I've never had any problems with Linux dialling up to Freeserve - they 
just use standard kit to dial into and establish a PPP session. The ISP 
I've had most trouble with was Demon, as they use a nonstandard 
dialup/login method (you need to send an extra <CR> to start the PPP 
session).

I've even got Linux to dialup to AOL - but as we all know, they're not 
actually an ISP.

Jon

PS - Please don't top post... start your reply either inline or below 
the text of the message you're replying to - and strip signatures :)

 From the style of your reply, it seems you're using a broken mail 
client, i.e. one that's not standards compliant, but it only takes 2 
seconds to scroll down..

PPS - sorry if that sounded bitchy :)

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gavin Stevens" <starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net>
> To: "Sussex Linux Users Group" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:33 PM
> Subject: [Sussex] Dial-up twice
> 
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Recently, when dialling-up to my Freeserve account, I have to dial-up
>>twice before I can get my e-mails. I was using Mozilla when this first
>>started. To see if it was Mozilla, I set up Sylpheed to get my Freeserve
>>e-mail & the same things happens:
>>
>>Dial-up first time (doesn't matter whether e-mail client is opened before
>>or after dial-up), attempt to receive mail will bring up "errors occurred
>>while getting mail". X-term has messages saying couldn't locate
>>pop.freeserve.net, etc etc.
>>
>>CTRL-C; dial-up again, get e-mails no problem. Can't work this one out - I
>>suspect that something may have changed with the changeover from Freeserve
>>to Wannabesomethingnoonesheardof. I noticed this evening that I no longer
>>get the user login message after doing wvdial.
>>
>>I'm just baffled as to why it won't work first time but always works
>>second time.
>>
>>Incidentally, dialling-up to my uklinux account (which I'm using as I
>>write this) always works first time.
>>
>>Any thoughts welcome,
>>
>>Gavin.