1. What version of linux is loaded?
2. What window manager are you using?
I gather your using Red Hat. That is hard to trouble shoot. Either it
works right or you might need to punt and re-load the turkey again...
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Chris wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I have a question for y'all:
> It would seem that my pppd is killed almost immediately after it starts
> using any of the non-GUI scripting programs that I can find. Both RedHat
> UserNet and kppp work like champs once I have them configured correctly,
> but diald, wvdial, etc, etc, never seem to work.
> Now, up to this point, I have lived with the hassle of having to
> start X and wait for my root menu to _finally_ finish doing whatever it
> does, but now I am using WindowMaker more often and kppp does not behave
> well in this environment. Plus, I would much rather type "wvdial" than
> wait while the gui grinds away...
> ...and here begins my problem. After scrapping xisp because it
> was claiming that my xispdialer was not where it should be (when it
> clearly was), I found wvdial, and was very impressed by its effective
> simplicity. However, it still has the same problem that every non-gui
> dialer has had up to this point: it dies as soon as pppd kicks in. Here's
> a sample from the wvdial dialogue:
> Entering PPP Session.
> IP address is <blah>
> MTU is <blah>
> <PPP garbage>
> -->PPP negotiation detected.
> -->starting pppd at Wed. Aug 19 00:18:58 1998
> -->PPP daemon has died! (exit code=1)
> -->Disconnecting at Wed. Aug 19 00:18:58 1998
>
> Any ideas? As I have said, it's not just this program that does
> this. TIA.
> -Chris
>
>
>
Best wishes
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