Tried it-- no go. Using the email address (myid@earthlink.net) works fine with kppp and wvdial, but not with kinternet. Kinternet creates the configuration file "myidearthlink.net" in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers, which doesn't work. I can rename the file to "myid@earthlink.net", but kinternet still won't log me in. Bummer. On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:59:36 -0400, you wrote:
On Saturday 10 August 2002 15:42, Matt Prastein wrote:
I've just fired up SUSE 8 and KDE 3, and it looks good. But I have an access problem with kinternet. I dial up, get connected, but fail to login.
I use Earthlink as my ISP, and Earthlink tells me to I login as ELN/myid. This works fine with kppp or wvdial, but the Yast2 configuration of kinternet (SUSE 8.0, fully updated) insists on changing this to ELNmyid, which of course doesn't work. FWIW, this was a manual configuration of the modem. It's a PCI-based unit on ttyS4 and could not be identified by YAST2 configuration (though it shows up properly on the hardware lists).
Matt, As a former user of Earthlink dialup, I can suggest this to you as it was what I was told that is needed to log on their service. I use their cable service now and still use the same for email and news verification.
Instead of your ELN/yid thing that you have been using, try your email address (smprastein@earthlink.net) and then your password as usual. I believe you will find this gets you right in without any problems. I was told they had stopped using the ELN thing sometime ago, probably because they use Linux for their servers and the forward / is most likely causing it to misbehave. So your login name now becomes your email addy and the password remains the same.
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Regards, Matt Prastein