Dial up access recives messed up login

[Cirvam]

When I dial up my service provider with pppd or minicom, instead of Login: I just get 'a' with an accent mark over it, there is a whole string of these. When I dial up from Windoze I don't get any problems, I just get Login:. I have an external USR 33.6K modem connected to a Slackware 7.0 box. What could be the problem?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Erik

 

[AndyBo]

How do you connect when you dial from Windows? If you use Dial-Up Networking, then you will be making a PPP connection. The weird characters you're seeing will be part of the PPP negotiation that's going on, and would normally be invisible to you. I'd recommend using something like &quot;kppp&quot; to set up PPP connections through X on Linux. Makes things a heck of a lot easier!<br>
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If you dial direct using, for eg, HyperTerminal, and you get a Login: prompt, then your modem is connected to your Linux box at the wrong baud rate. Check your serial port settings for the modem connection, and try setting them to &quot;9600&quot;, &quot;19200&quot;, and &quot;38400&quot;. One of these should give you a trouble-free connection. If you find that you can only connect at &quot;9600&quot;, then you need to find out what &quot;AT&quot; commands to feed the modem to set the computer connection speed higher.<br>
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HTH.

 

[Cirvam]

Thanks, I'll have to try the baud rate change. I was connecting through hyperterminal in windows, and that was working so the second part will help (hopefully) <br>
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Thanks,<br>
Erik