On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:14, you wrote: > I had Redhat installed on the 15th & I would like to thank all concerned > especially the two installers. > The reason I have not posted a message earlier, is I have only arrived home > after being out of town since the day after the InstallFest. > Everything went well on the day and we made a connection to my ISP and > received several messages ( which I now cannot find) . I am unable to make > the connection to my ISP . > The installer was not too happy with how the connection was made, after > removing the prefix from the number to be called, told me what to do when I > got set up at home. which is go to System Settings / Network / > Activate, when I do this a message comes up - activating network device > ppp1, please wait - then nothing happens and I can only exit by rebooting ?
It should be talking about ppp0, not ppp1. This is the hint to see if there is an errant ppp process running or something. please do:- su - root ls -l /var/run/ in a shell window while not connected. If you find an entry for files called ppp0.pid or ppp0.run, or ppp1.pid or ppp1.run ( I can't remember the file extention ) remove it, then execute the commands:- killall pppd rm /var/run/ppp* exit and try to connect again. Take great care with the file name for the rm command, check for spurious spaces before you press the enter key, remember you are root. If that does not work you might like to bring the machine to the post InstallFest clinic om Monday evening. -- C. S.
