Keri,
First off, bring up an xterm/rxvt/whatever
so that you're at a shell prompt. If you're
not logged in as root (as you shouldn't be),
enter the command "su -" followed by your
root password. From there, run "/usr/bin/pppconfig"
and configure your dialup connection. After
that's successful, you'll want to add your
regular user account to the "dip" group
("adduser username dip"). This way you can
bring your PPP connection up and down without
having to su to root.
HTH.
j.
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Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----Original Message-----
From: Keri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:06 PM
To: DU
Subject: Re: Help For Newbie
Yeah. I'm confused.
There ae two icons on the desktop here.
On for conencting and onforon/off.
I have no idea where this fits in and
if I have to configure the ppp in -term?
The books I _do_ have unfortunately
aren't tackling the problem as it seems
there are so many different set ups.
It doesn't seem to dwell much on configuration
for my specific set up.
Keri
> This explains a lot. Normally in linux, commands are typed in a text
> window or on the text console. Probably, pppconfig should not be in
> the graphical menu, it is only confusing indeed.
>
> Try to get used to the command line. Most examples in the
documentation
> assume that that is how you use commands. A good book about learning
> unix or linux may not be a bad idea either, if you have to be your own
> systems administrator. Currently, it is still rather harder than
easier
> to administrate linux with pictures. If it ever will, I'm not sure if
> I will still recognise it, though. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost
>
>
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