Trouble with PPP need to get online... HELP!

[thescribe7]

I am trying ot help a friend setup PPP on his linux system. He is a first time user, using drake 7.1. He has a usr int. 56k v.90 modem he connects then it asks for a user name and password then connects then dumps him. The user name and password he inputs are correct. They are the one's he's been using since he started service with windows on his sys.
Any ideas or suggestions? Any help is greatly apriciated.
Thanx!

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"Don't worry about you life if you hold to close you'll loose it. Don't worry about your life, so won't you let go before it's gone?" -Rebecca St. James - Don't Worry

[Phreakee]

Are you using kppp? If so I know there is a fix somewhere on the forum. I can't remember exactly what you need to add, but I think it is no-auth to the /etc/ppp-options file

Do a search on that file and see what you can find. That is your culprit. I had the exact same problem, but it was a while ago.

[fuzzy]

First try and edit the /etc/ppp/options file
It should read "# auth" where it says "auth" and "# lock" where it says "lock".
After that, I would look at the kde site and look up info on kppp. They have fixes for these issues in there and somewhere on this site.
Otherwise, try from the command line
"/sbin/ifup ppp0" and see if that gets him connected.


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[thescribe7]

Thanx alot!
I spooke with my friend. He is using both KDE and Gnome. Do these fixes you post applyu only to KDE and if so is there a Gnome remidy as well?
Thanx a bunch!

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"Don't worry about you life if you hold to close you'll loose it. Don't worry about your life, so won't you let go before it's gone?" -Rebecca St. James - Don't Worry

[fuzzy]

Err... perhaps. I know that those things are a start especially for kppp.
I never used the gnome dialer.
Actually, I always connect, now, via command line. Don't ask me why -- I just sort of gravitated to that. Kept things cleaner, I suppose.
Anyway, if those don't work, do look at the kde website. I know they have some fixes for such dialup problems. This is what I had to do (before the latest version of pppconfig was available for debian -- no longer the above problems). Go to a command line as root.

I gave the pppd file rx permission for users:
chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/pppd

I made /usr/sbin/pppd setuid for root (there are definite security issues with this one)
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd

and made the port accessible for users
chmod a+rw /dev/ttyxx (where xx is the appropriate port the modem is on... mine is ttyS1)

Hope this all helps.

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[This message has been edited by fuzzy (edited 10 November 2000).]