Why do so many people have such a problem with suseppp? OK, its not exactly plug and play owing to the differences between ISPs, but it's easy enough to find out what you need to change in the chat script by dialling in manually with a modem program like minicom. That's how I did it. Here's a useful tip for those who are having problems; the default chat script isn't very informative about progress during connection and it's not very readable. As an alternative, you can adapt the shell script in /usr/lib/diald/connect to your ISP's login protocols quite easily as it is quite transparent about how it goes about making a conection. Rename the customised shell script to /etc/suseppp/scripts/generic.connect, then replace the pppd invocation in ppp-up with the following: /usr/sbin/pppd \ connect "/etc/suseppp/scripts/$1.connect < /dev/modem > /dev/modem" \ file /etc/suseppp/$1.options And that's all; just run /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up to bring up the line. Ralph Joe Ryan wrote:
Rick;
Go back to your Redhat manual; at least it explains what it is your trying to accomplish; unlike suse.
The guys @ SuSE tried to help promote a bunch of German ISP's, so they came up with scripts and that damned SuSEppp. Talk about making a simple thing complicated! You still only need slip and ppp support in the kernel, diald, pppd, chat and connect. The guys at SUSE took so much grief about Suseppp and all of that nonsense that they have bailed out to WvDial as a means of establishing a ppp connection. It still works the same, you just have to wade through SUSE's B.S.
Joe
Rick Knebel wrote:
Hi,
I am giving suse 5.3 a try. I have used redhat, caldera, and debian and I have never had as much of a hard time setting up ppp as i am having with suse.
I am trying to use kppp and everytime i connect it will not get past my ISP saying "no carrier".
I have not done anything different than in the other distro's I have set up.
I cannot get suse's pppconfig to work either.
Any Idea's.
Rick
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