Hi all, Well, except for my disk partitioning problem (which is going to end up driving me to get Partition Magic so I can get this disk partitioned the way I want it, my thanks to all those who offered help) my installation went fairly smoothly, but now I've run into another problem that I'd appreciate some help with. I was able to get my modem working, but now I'm stuck on getting a PPP session to work properly. Using kppp, I entered all the needed information and made a connection to my ISP, but I don't seem to be able to actually do anything with that connection. I've tried using several applications, but none of them seem to be able to actually interact with the net, despite the fact that kpp claims that everything is working fine. I looked through the kppp help files, and thought that my problem had actually been addressed in the FAQ section, but the solution suggested there didn't appear to make any difference. Any suggestions? Mike -- 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 archive 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>>
Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. You should see something to the effect of domain <isp domainname> nameserver <ip address of dns server> That will be followed by any additional nameservers you have. Most ISPs supply two. If you don't see that there you can fill it in yourself. This file is generally filled in by kppp but I am betting wasn't in your case. Probably due to an issue with permissions. KPPP likes to run setuid and cannot write to the /etc/resolv.conf without permission to do so. Sounds as if you have already discovered the next thing I'll mention but just in case: Edit the file /etc/ppp/options to remove the line containing "Lock". KPPP does its own locking and having the lock there will cause the connection to die on you. Hope that does it. Allen Michael Curry wrote:
Hi all,
Well, except for my disk partitioning problem (which is going to end up driving me to get Partition Magic so I can get this disk partitioned the way I want it, my thanks to all those who offered help) my installation went fairly smoothly, but now I've run into another problem that I'd appreciate some help with.
I was able to get my modem working, but now I'm stuck on getting a PPP session to work properly. Using kppp, I entered all the needed information and made a connection to my ISP, but I don't seem to be able to actually do anything with that connection. I've tried using several applications, but none of them seem to be able to actually interact with the net, despite the fact that kpp claims that everything is working fine.
I looked through the kppp help files, and thought that my problem had actually been addressed in the FAQ section, but the solution suggested there didn't appear to make any difference.
Any suggestions?
Mike
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Thanks to all those who offered suggestions. Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to get things to work correctly. At 08:05 PM 3/29/99 -0600, Allen Carpenter wrote:
Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. You should see something to the effect of
domain <isp domainname> nameserver <ip address of dns server>
That will be followed by any additional nameservers you have. Most ISPs supply two. If you don't see that there you can fill it in yourself.
This file is generally filled in by kppp but I am betting wasn't in your case. Probably due to an issue with permissions. KPPP likes to run setuid and cannot write to the /etc/resolv.conf without permission to do so.
I checked /etc/resolv.conf and it did indeed have the right entries. I also found that kppp was indeed able to write to it.
Sounds as if you have already discovered the next thing I'll mention but just in case: Edit the file /etc/ppp/options to remove the line containing "Lock". KPPP does its own locking and having the lock there will cause the connection to die on you.
I had indeed already commented out "Lock". Someone suggested to me that I try pinging numerical IP addresses, and I did so. Unfortunately the results were the same, but it was a good idea. To add a bit to my original problem report, I opened kppp's detail screen and after watching it while I tried a few pings and telnets I saw that apparently there were no packets going either out or in through the modem. I installed and attempted to use wvdial, but encountered basically the same problem. The modem connected and was able to get me logged in, but after that nothing. And on a side node, minicom seems to work perfectly well. Mike -- 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 archive 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>>
Michael Curry wrote:
Thanks to all those who offered suggestions. Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to get things to work correctly.
I installed and attempted to use wvdial, but encountered basically the same problem. The modem connected and was able to get me logged in, but after that nothing.
And on a side node, minicom seems to work perfectly well.
Do you have TCP/IP support enabled in your kernel?
From what I recall there are 2 options in the kernel, one is for tcp/ip and the other is ppp. Both must be enabled. It's the only thing I can think of.
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At 07:59 AM 3/29/99 -0500, zentara wrote:
Thanks to all those who offered suggestions. Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to get things to work correctly.
I installed and attempted to use wvdial, but encountered basically the same problem. The modem connected and was able to get me logged in, but after that nothing.
And on a side node, minicom seems to work perfectly well.
Do you have TCP/IP support enabled in your kernel? From what I recall there are 2 options in the kernel, one is for tcp/ip and the other is ppp. Both must be enabled. It's the only thing I can think of.
After reading this I decided to just re-install SuSe, and amazingly enough my ppp connection works perfectly now. Obviously I must have managed to screw things up at some point the first time around. Anyway, thanks to all those who have offered advice along the way. Mike -- 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 archive 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>>
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