Re: dial-up problem with KPPP

[Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net>]

Try "debug" in the options file.  Then look at the /var/log/messages
file for ppp messages.

Run the pppd daemon by hand inside a terminal.  You should see garbage
characters, and not an error message.

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 08:34 -0600, Larry Funk wrote:
> Hello, All.
>  
> I'm a Linux newbie, and quite ignorant about the basics. My current
> internet machine is a 586/120MHz/Win95 and my word
> processing/Quickbooks machine has been my old faithful
> 486DX-33/Win3.1. So, you see I'm from the far-left end of the computer
> knowledge bell curve.
>  
> A blank slate (except for BIOS) 1GHz Athlon machine recently fell into
> my lap, and rather than defaulting to Micro$oft, I figured I'd try
> some sort of Linux first.
>  
> I've got PCLinuxOS .8 (Mandrake based with KDE) installed on it and
> I'm pretty happy with this OS, but I haven't been able to get online
> with it.
>  
> I pulled the Connexant winmodem (which wouldn't do anything beyond
> being detected) and hooked up a Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro external
> serial modem instead. It will dial out and connect to my ISP, but then
> KPPP returns Error #15: timeout expired while waiting for ppp
> interface. I've gone over all the KPPP settings with the techs at my
> ISP, and one of the techs was able to connect from home via KPPP from
> within Mandrake so the problem shouldn't be with my ISP. I've also
> played around with the /etc/ppp/options file with no success.
>  
> Any ideas which don't require a Doctorate (or even Associates) degree
> in Linux Engineering to implement?
>  
> Thank You,
> Larry Funk
> Freeburg, IL
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Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net>


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