I spent some time reading pppd man8 and after experimenting with /etc/ppp/options I found that commenting out the "connect" line gave me an appearance of kppp connecting. By-the-way I have checked permissions and they seem to be ok. So kppp's statistics box shows activity both in the bottom graph and in the virtual modem lights. When I open lynx though and arrow down to google I get "Alert: unable to connect to remote host" Mozilla's dialogue box just says whatever url I type or click on in debians local page "...could not be found check the name and try again." And yes I have tried to dialout many times. I'm getting a little punchy with this problem. Sorry about the email foul ups. Should I try to reinstall the dialout or whatever software group debian calls it with taskel? . Quoting Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > J Y (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I tried some other things like 1) uncommenting the auth line in > > /etc/ppp/options> I tried to apt-get install ppp and the response was > > the current version is the most recent. I ran linuxconf and made sure > > I was in the ppp group-I am. > > My Debian system does not have a ppp group. This seems to be something > linuxconf-specific. By default, the group you must be in to use pppd is > "dip": > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /usr/sbin/pppd > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 230604 10. Dez 2001 /usr/sbin/pppd > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll -d /etc/ppp/peers > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 15. Sep 23:49 /etc/ppp/peers > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /etc/ppp/peers > -rw-r----- 1 root dip 579 20. Jul 23:30 provider > -rw-r----- 1 root dip 275 15. Sep 23:49 T-Online > > > I also uncommented debug in > > /etc/ppp/ttyS4 options. That's my modem. When I ran kppp this time, as > > a regular user the message from kppp was: "timeout expired while > > waiting for the PPP interface to come up". The detail box provided: > > > > Oct 1 17:15:16 deblnx pppd[1049]: pppd 2.4.1 started by john, uid > > 1000 > > Oct 1 17:15:46 deblnx pppd[1049]: Terminating on signal 15. > > Oct 1 17:15:46 deblnx pppd[1049]: Connect script failed > > Oct 1 17:15:46 deblnx pppd[1049]: Exit. > > Check the pppd man page for the meaning of its exit codes. This one > means: > > The link was terminated because the peer is not responding to echo > requests. > > This happens to me sometimes when I try do dial. When I try again, it > works. Did you try several times or only once? > > best regards > Andreas Janssen
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