Re: [OT] PPP: receive serial link not 8 bit clean

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@lightside.dhis.org)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 06:50:52 +0200

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 03:13:37PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote:
> > The first ISP connects no problem, the second one I can't connect
> > to, I get the above error. What do I have to do to get rid of
> > this 8 bit clean error?
>
> You get that error message when the username/password combination is
> incorrect. I don't remember the explanation of why. In any case,

Because it doesn't start PPP, and therefore all pppd sees (or has seen so far
are 7 bit characters).

Try minicom-ing to the ISP and verify that you got the chat connect script
written correctly.

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