Suse Linux wrote:
Hi all, I have just installed Suse5.2 and am damned impressed!! I am only fairly new to linux (I had used slackware for about a month previously). I guess I have so many questions to ask, but I guess there's 2 that I really need to ask: 1) I am having trouble setting up ppp. I have managed to connect to my ISP and login fine, ppp seems to be starting up okay. However I can't get any further than that. I can ping the ip number of ther machine I'm connecting to, but I can't get past that machine. I think the problem is in the routing somewhere but I don't know how to fix it. Here is the output of route -n (I hope it formats okay):
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 dummy0
134.148.7.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1 ppp0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 4 lo
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 3 dummy0
If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. It seems I am almost there but just can't get over this last hurdle.
I once had a problem like the one you are having. I found that I needed to put a -defaultroute after pppd to get it to set up the route. I then put this in the ppp-up that I used to start ppp. Take a look at my file:#!/bin/sh# # /etc/ppp/ppp-up # # Aufbau einer PPP Verbindung # localip=0.0.0.0 remoteip= device=/dev/modem pppflags="38400 modem debug defaultroute" /usr/sbin/pppd lock connect \ '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/ppp.chat' \ $device $pppflags $localip:$remoteip # End of ppp-up I later installed the KDE and found kppp to be very easy to configure and use. If you are not using the KDE, try it. There are some purests here who have good political reasons not to use the KDE. What can I say? I'm a GPL sinner. The biggest reason I have for using the KDE is I love it!
I have another question:
2) When I start up netscape I get an error saying something about I am not running it in the correct visual mode or something. Also the screen goes aweful and it says it's running it in monocrome mode or something. It says to check the available visual modes using xdpyinfo and run netscape with the command line '-visual'. Does anyone know what this is all about and how I can fix it? I didn't get anything like this in slackware. Obviously I am not connecting to anywhere.
You are an excelent newbie :-) Your color depth is likely set to 8bpp or 24 bpp try 16 bpp. As I understand it, there is a bug in Netscape that causes this problem. you can change this setting by running XF86Setup and going to mode selection.
I have been reading this list for a little while now and you all sound like very kind helpful people. Cheers, Brad
We are. Many here are far more helpful than I, because they know a lot more. We will be far more helpful if you change your name form "suse linux" :-D I hope some of this helps, and don't forget to take a look at the ppp and chat related How-to's and man pages if you still have problems. One of the how-to's has a good write up on how to manualy connect using minicom. I learned a lot from doing this. You may want to attempt this yourself. Steve -- [<A HREF="http://counter.li.org"><A HREF="http://counter.li.org</A">http://counter.li.org</A</A>>] S.u.S.E. Linux, www.suse.com I Think, I think I am, Therefore I am, I think? - Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e