Re: [newbie] establishing a ppp connection
"Birchall, Richard" wrote: s3x [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: i seemed to have my modem (isdn bri t/a external) configured properly under kppp and the account info is correct but it never finishes logging in. when i watch the log window all i get is garbage characters. i've tried every setting i saw ( CHAP, PAP, Script and Terminal) to no avail. i've filled in expected arguements and all. does anyone have a clue where i should start to fix this. Your first step is probably to delete the kppprc file and start fresh. $ (HOMEDIR)/.kde/share/config/kppprc Each user (including root) has a separate home directory. The .kde directory is hidden, so you have to enable "view hidden files" in the KDE file browser. Garbage characters usually means you are already in PPP mode, and do not use a text-based login. So that means use PAP or CHAP (not Script or Terminal). It sounds like you are using kppp, so you should just enter your username password in the very first screen, and kppp will pass that info to pppd. To view the debugging messages: Edit /etc/syslog.conf. Change where it says: *.info to: *.debug (Don't forget to switch this back after you get your ppp connection working!) Then stop restart the syslogd daemon. killall -HUP syslogd syslogd Add the following line to /etc/ppp/options: debug While you are trying your ppp connection, open another console window, then type: tail -f /var/log/messages You can include those last few lines of ppp debug info, in future messages... Richard
[newbie] sometimes it works...L-M 6.0 upgrade
This will be a long post, so be warned. Reason? Because it feels so good to have something work the way it should, and I have to tell you about what happened. I sampled linux about a month ago. Bought a new hard drive w/8gig's and decided to dedicate the old one (3.9) to a trial of linux. Installed L-M 5.3 with little problem. Got the sound to work. Got the printer to work. Had a lot of trouble with getting on the internet with my ibm.net ISP, but finally worked my way on with control-panel, network configuration and interface ppp0 using activate/inactivate. Got Netscape 4.5 to work OK. I llke the linux system and the philosophy and am learning as I go. I agree we could sure use a little more help on the way the system works and how the file systems are set up, but we'll eventually learn all this. So, along comes L-M 6.0, and of course everyone has to have the latest version, right? Right, ... and when it came in the mail I took a long look at the configuration of my current system and decided it would be worth a try to upgrade from 5.3. First try. Made the boot floppy in linux from the CD. Added several programs to the default load on the CD and away we went. About an hour into the installation, the CD is thrashing around and nothing much is going on. The timer said another 8 hours. Time to dump the upgrade, so we got out. Next, we decide to abandon the current configuration and do a complete new install. Started the process and about 4 pages in, it quit and told me it was unable to continue. OK, one last try. Back to the upgrade path once more. Did the upgrade with NO changes to the default programs and the installation went tickety-boo. Saved all my old configuration files and even upgraded the kernel to 2.2.9-19 and netscape to 4.6. Needless to say, I am ecstatic. Everything works great and is very fast now that I told lilo.conf "append = mem=128" We are not totally problem free... the modem will not hang up out of the interface ppp0, but we will eventually get KPPP (or something else) to work and solve that problem. The sound still works, the printer still works and I can still get on the net, which is how you are learning more than you really care about this project. My apologies. It just feels good when something works right for a change. I think Linux-Mandrake has done a hell of a good job on the change to 6.0. I would hope everyone else has as good an experience. Thanks, Guys and Gals.
[newbie] kernel update configure
OK, here goes...I'm jumping into Linux. Looks like an interesting operating system and besides, I think MS is at least arrogant and perhaps monopolistic, so we need to find something better. I am not an administrator and never will be, but I would like to use and learn the system as I believe the future may belong to an open system. I bought a copy of Redhat 5.2 at my local CompUSA. I ordered a copy of Linux-Mandrake from cheap bytes. No manuals from cheap bytes, living up to their name. I tried (on a 3.1 gig, freshly formatted hard drive with nothing else on it) to install Redhat. I could only get as far as the grey screen. I re-installed twice. Same deal. No one could help me get a windows interface running. So, I tried Mandrake and lo and behold, I got xwindows running right away. Three cheers for Mandrake and BOO to you, redhat! Wouldn't even answer my e-mail after I paid for their system. The screen works (well, almost. It is shrunken at 1024 X 768 but it works), the sound card talks to me and makes all of the .wav noises. With the help of some paid support, I was able to get on ibm.net, my ISP. Still can't get kppp to get me on the internet, but I'll figure that out someday. Now I have a redhat manual and a mandrake system. Nothing seems to match up, although Mandrake is supposed to be compatible with redhat. Sure... So now, I think I would like to upgrade my kernel (now that I know what one is) and have been studying all the information available at several locations. I downloaded and printed out the detailed instructions. I then check to find my kernel and guess what? It is not where it is supposed to be, at least not according to the documentation. Mine is in /proc/sys/kernel not /usr/src/linux. So much for the directions. I suppose that is where it is normally found under Mandrake 5.3, which is (I now know) running on my computer. It would really be nice if there was some information somewhere that would make some of these things available. I am not lazy and would gladly look up the proper information, but it sure is frustrating to try and find something; when everyone that is already using linux assumes that anyone just starting must already know all of this stuff! I have news for you. We DON'T! But we want to support the concept and would like to learn. Please be patient with our ignorance. Most of us are not stupid, just ignorant. I happen to have an airline transport type rating in the 747-400. If you came up in the cockpit with me, I could make you look pretty stupid if I wanted to, but that wouldn't make me any smarter, so I would not do that. enough said... How, please, does one upgrade from 2.0.36 to the new 2.2 kernel under mandrake 5.3? If I do this, will I destroy my cofiguration for getting on the internet through control panel, network, interfaces and highlighting and clickin on my ppp0 interface? Thanks for any help [EMAIL PROTECTED]
