Try putting -ipx-protocol in your /etc/suseppp/generic.options file or whatever your options file is... (You might even put in Yast ppp config where it talks about options. This according to a post I saw in usenet. 'course YMMV. But gosh, talking about ppp is so fun! What would we do without it? Not! :-) -or- if you are in a hurry, use wvdial as others have suggested. Works like a charm or better. Sounds like SuSE will somehow add it to 6.0, even at this late stage. Pete, you're almost there with ppp. You've got your ip's assigned, which normally means things are working. In fact, I've never gotten ip's, then had the thing fail. Keep up the good work. Steve. On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, pete shaw wrote: Hello All, My name is Pete, and I am a newbie. Please help me, for once you were as I am now. I am trying to make the Win95/NY jump into the Linux world, and was wondering if someone oiut there might be able to help me with some of a bunch of questions I have been building up. Part 1.) Got shrink wrap of SuSE 5.3 at local computer store. Was gonna buy Caldera or RH, but what the hell. Part 2.)My system. Hardware gave me almost no problem, until I discovered I had an unmarked winmodem! Nitro3d Graphics Card, Cyrix P166, system, 48Meg ram. One unique part of my system is that I'm using a syquest SyJet IDE 1.5 meg drive as the boot drive, with a Western Digital 4.5 Gigabyte drive as the secondary. This was I can use SyJet carts like my PC is a nintendo, and until I get my Linux disk connecting to the interne I am writing this to you on Win95 cartridge. This lets me run testbed development and other stuff pretty easily. Part 3.)So Install, and everything seems fine. I'm working my way through a couple of books on Linux, and reading HOWTO's, and setting up my machine, I couldn't get my modem to work until I replaced it with a genuine jumper controlled 56K v.90 modem from Digicom. I set it up on com3, 0x03e8, IRQ 5, and tested it in DOS and it worked fine. Part 4.)So now I'm working my way the the SuSE book and the PPP HOWTO, and I get as far as conencting to my ISP using minicom, then quitting and launching PPPD. I had set up YAST with what I thought were the correct parameters. I also opened a term window and did a trail -f /var/log/messages, and here is what happened. Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw kernel: registered device ppp0 Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw pppd[8407]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw pppd[8407]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 12 19:12:57 peteshaw pppd[8407]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem Dec 12 19:12:58 peteshaw pppd[8407]: local IP address 206.29.51.54 Dec 12 19:12:58 peteshaw pppd[8407]: remote IP address 206.29.51.51 Dec 12 19:13:28 peteshaw pppd[8407]: IPXCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Dec 12 19:13:28 peteshaw pppd[8407]: CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests I don't have a f&$0ng clue what could be wrong. HELP! Part 5.)Two other questions on a similar note. 5a)How do I make setserial run automatically? I need to do a
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 port 0x03e8 spd_vhi
every time I boot in order to get the modem to work properly. /dev/modem is set to /dev/ttyS2 through YaST. 5b)Is there a way to get pppd to use /dev/modem automatically? When I type ppd it uses tty by default, launching gibberish at me. Well, I am sure I will eventually make it over this learning curve, but for now I am feeling pretty overwhelmed. The bright side is that everything else has installed and worked so well! And KDE is friggin' awesome! I am very impressed so far. Peace --Pete Shaw - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>