finally got mandrake 7 installed. also had kppp problems.
at 'linuxnewbies.org', there was an installation recipe especially for
kppp. i followed it and it worked.
hope this helps, larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Pittman, Merle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:33 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] kppp Problems
> DHCP depends on your ISP, whether they require you to use it or not. And
> since you are using dialup (Kppp) , I would say that you do need it.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Sherman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:10 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] kppp Problems
> >
> > In Mandrake 6.1, everything worked fine. Now that i have 7.0, The
internet
> >
> > and the network won't work.
> >
> > In Kppp, i put in the phone #, DNS servers, username and pass. I
couldn't
> > get it to connect, so i added noauth to /etc/ppp/options. Now it will
> > connect, but i can't go anywhere in netscape.
> >
> > As for the network, if i don't turn on DHCP, it won't be able to ping
the
> > other windows compuers, but when i turn it on, it gets an ip from one of
> > the
> > windows computers, then everything works. Is DHCP now Required or what??
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