[Sussex] Dial-up twice

[Mike Diack]

Intriguing....
BT and various other ISPs always worked fine for me , but I never had any
luck with Freeserve.
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Fautley" <jon at geekpeople.net>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Dial-up twice


> 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.
>
>
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