tlug: Re: PPP for real dummies

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

More newbie questions and babble. 

As it may be of benefit to other, I would like 
to first mention that I was able to solve, with the 
assistance of a half dozen people, my first 
problem, i.e. the Cirrus Logic videocard 
CLGD7548 which was not being able to run 
Xwindows. That's on the Sharp Mebius PCA455. 
Looks like Libretto has the same video 
card. I will be happy to send the XF86Config file to
interested parties. 

* Many thanks to Jonathan, Howard and David. 

Thanks to your advice I have been able to 
progress right along to the next _PPP _Stumbling 
_Block ...PSB-2 (suggestion to developers: the 
company that develops a comprehensive configuration 
system for connecting to a dial-up provider 
should be able to sell quite a few widgets; 
this is getting frustrating!).

after setting USERCTL to USERCTL=yes, 
I got the error that 'pppd does not exist', 
which was a surprise as I assumed that it 
would have been installed when TL2.0J Standard 
was; guess not. A search through the TL 
partition revealed that in fact no files containing 
the string 'pppd' did exist. The only CD that 
I have at my disposal now is TL2.0J - *Lite* which 
happily included the file 'ppp-2.3.5-1.i386.rpm'. 
I copied it to the directory one step above root 
and installed it with the command 
'rpm -i ppp-2.3.5-1.i386.rpm'  . 
This is actually the first UNIX app 
that I have installed on my own; hope 
that the method isn't faulty. 
Anyway, the pppd seems to have 
been installed; I know this because 
the modem started making 
clicking sounds and the modem icon 
changed its red lights to green lights. 
Excitedly I plugged a telephone line into 
the modem and hey, it even seemed to be 
dialing the correct number. 

However - and here's the stumbling 
block - after dialing GOL (the provider) 
the modem just clicked off again (modem 
icon lights turned red) and then started 
up again, the process repeating itself 
over and over. I found that the system 
starts the PPP process at bootup, by 
the way. This presents two problems, I guess: 
1) how to actually connect to the provider 
and -gasp- actually use the connection 
for web browsing and mail exchange. 
(judging from other pleas for help on tlug, 
I expect there will be a couple more stumbling 
blocks again). 
2) how to stop the system from starting 
up PPP at bootup and keep it from trying 
to connect incessantly. 

As for problem #1, I'm still pretty clueless. 
To solve problem #2, I tried setting ONBOOT 
to ONBOOT=no (had tried that on 'yes' 
previously) and, in the neworking configuration 
gui, unclicked 'maintain PPP connection after 
it is lost' which I assume is setting PERSIST to 
PERSIST=no. This didn't remedy the situation 
so I removed ppp0 settings (so that I could 
think in quiet). 

Which is what I am doing now...

Am I getting warm?  





             Tony Laszlo  laszlo@example.com (Jiyugaoka, Tokyo)
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