I forgot to send a copy to you. ------ Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Gary <glory> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redhat 5.0-ppp Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:04:50 -0700 This was trouble for me too at first. It worked immediately after I configured my network settings from the network configurator in the control panel in fvwm2. I am connecting to an NT server that requires pap authentication (which is an option in the configurator). I setup a ppp device there and the only difference I could discern in my configuration files was in the pap-secrets file. There was a line that looked like this: username ppp0 password substituting of course your username and password. ppp0 was the device which was automatically added in the network configurator interface when I chose to add a ppp device. This might be a little vague since I'm not in linux right now. The other thing I added in the first screen of the configurator were the DNS ip's of my isp. Also you have to add your dialup phone number in the configure hardware section of adding the ppp0 device. Then highlight the ppp device you added and hit 'activate' It dialed me right in. Hopefully it will you too. This little idea didn't make my ppp-on scripts work, though, and I haven't figured out how to disconnect yet, so it is only a temp-fix. Also, it doesn't configure your procmail--another project I'm working on. There is a nifty little program out there called xisp that I installed with my first linux installation. It had a windows like interface and was easily configurable. It requires a library called xforms--get xisp and read the readme. Follow the installation instructions carefully and you should have full functionality within a couple of hours of downloading the packages. http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-57220/search3.html Keep this URL for doing ftp searches for Linux software. Be sure and check the linux box below the fields. Here is an lsm for xisp: X-ISP is an X11 and XForms based visual interface to pppd and chat, implementing a dialup networking tool. It is also a small ISP and phone company (PTT) database manager, and a dialup costs and usage logging tool. Currently it only supports PPP type connections. To build it you need XForms-0.88 or later, and if you don't have it already, libXpm version 3.4f or later. The ready-to-run binaries are compiled with the static version of the XForms v0.88 library (so you don't need to install the XForms library to use them), and against Linux libc-5. Here are the ftp sites and files for xisp: Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/serial 213k xisp-2.4p2.tar.gz 337k xisp-2.4p2-ix86.tar.gz Alternate-site: argeas.argos.hol.gr /pub/unix/linux 213k xisp-2.4p2.tar.gz 337k xisp-2.4p2-ix86.tar.gz You'll have to find xforms. I haven't yet. note the ix86 is the binary distribution--probably a simpler install. Good luck and read the readme's Gary -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
