Internet connection problem

[steelers]

Hello

I am a Linux newbie. I installed Mandrake 10.1 about a week ago on a spare computer. Everything went well with the install, and everything seems to be working great, other than I can not get on the internet. I have been searching the net for a couple days now trying to figure this out, but to no avail. I’ll try to supply as much information as possible, and obviously if you need any other info just let me know.

First of all, I have an external modem connected to COM 1. I use KDE as my desktop. I use a dialup service. My ISP is Dialup4Less. On their site, they have step by step instructions on how to setup an account with them on Linux. (They even have screen shots). Anyway, I configured Kppp exactly how they told me to. Here is the problem. When I hit connect, I hear my modem dial out and try to connect, but then - after about a minute - I get an error message saying: ‘Timeout expired while waiting for the ppp interface to come up!’

I know you’ll need as much info as possible so here goes:

First, I have the pppd timeout set for 60 secs (the highest possible)

The Login Script Debug Window says:

ATZ
OK

ATM1L1
OK

ATDT3042344788

CONNECT 115200





Here’s some output from the terminal.
(I su to root first by the way)


# route –n

kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface


# ifconfig –a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:09:82:C7
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:fe09:82c7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17642 (17.2 Kb) TX bytes:17642 (17.2 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


# ifup ppp0 -- my modem dials out and tries to connect, and then nothing happens.


Does anybody have any ideas about this?

Thanks in advance.

[mrBen]

I suspect that it may be a permissions issue (although it's a while since I did dial-up).

Try running kppp as root and seeing if it makes a difference.

[steelers]

ok ill try that..thanks for replying