Hello ppc'ers, It seems that the original message below found its way into a WOM (write only memory). The situation has not changed, so here it is again. I think I have a problem with a missing serial.o module preventing pppd from accessing anything, because as soon as it should step in nothing (nada, nichts, niks, niets, rien, neat) happens. However a Linux distribution that does not connect to the internet seems so unlikely that I do prefer to have some of your advice before I start learning more about kernel modules...

Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:07:37 +0200 To: suse-ppc@suse.com From: Ype Kingma <ykingma@pop.xs4all.nl> Subject: 6.4 on beige G3: login/ppp fun (was: modem fun). Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments:

Hello ppc'ers,

With help from this list and some experimenting I determined some useful initstrings for my SupraExpress 288: first string: ATZ , second string: AT&F1 .

Thanks for all your help, I progressed, but only a tiny little bit:

Using wvdial it dials my provider, nicely makes a connection at the expected 28.8kb/s, and then things stop.

That is, there is no domain name service available. I used kpppd to get a terminal to the line, and sometimes I can actually type to the connection. I then still have to login first and then I get connected to a unix shell on the provider.

(I'm typing this under MacOS 8.1 on the same machine, so the hardware is ok.)

When connecting as ordinary user, wvdial complains that it cannot modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. I checked ls -alL /usr/sbin/pppd for missing s bits in its mode. All modes are as listed in the checklist. When connecting as root (I know this is a no no, but I tried anyway), the wvdial does not complain about the pap and chap secrets files.

My user names are ykingma for the provider and ype for my own machine, the beige G3.

I checked the PPP checklist on the SuSE site, and noticed the following differences with the required setup: 1. The serial.o module is not present. At the moment I am not able to investigate or improve this. 2. In /etc/ppp/options no user is mentioned, even though I expected this after setting up the ppp connection in Yast. I added my user name (ie. the user name on the Internet service provider) This had no effect on the problems above: still no login and no DNS. 3. In /etc/conf.modules the line: alias ppp-compress24 ppp-deflate was missing. I added this in place indicated in the checklist, but still no login and no DNS. 4. In /etc/ppp/ the file options.ippp0 is missing. I don't know what I could do about this. 5. In /etc/ppp/peers there are no files for my provider. (ao. chat script). As I don't need a script on the Mac, I suppose I don't need these. 6. I added an entry to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: "ykingma" * "password" This also had no effect: still no login, no DNS.

So much for the differences with the PPP checklist. There are a few more, but the ones mentioned seemed to be possible showstoppers.

Since there is a space in my password I added double quotes around it in /etc/wvdial.conf . Again no effect, so I removed the double quotes.

I encountered a file /etc/ppp/pppoe, so I added a user "ykingma" line to it and tried: /usr/sbin/pppd call pppoe but still no DNS.

I also tried to use kppp to connect, but I had very similar results: a connection is made, but the login does not seem to get done, let alone starting ppp on the server side.

There are a few things left I might try: - There is a space in my password: use another password. - Get educated about kernel modules to make sure serial.o is there. - chmod wvdial to have s bits like pppd so it won't complain that it can not modify /etc/ppp/{p,ch}ap-secrets. - ???

Now what should I do to use the internet from Linux SuSE 6.4 ppc edition?

Thanks (a lot) in advance, Ype