Re: [LUG] Dial up on Mandrake 9.0

["Simon Robinson" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By default it has;

lock
noauth
noipdefault
usepeerdns

The guide recommends I put in usedefaultroute and doesn't mention noauth...

-- Original message --
From: <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:01:14
Subject: Re: [LUG] Dial up on Mandrake 9.0

> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone managed to configure successfully a dial up connection to an
> > ISP on Mandrake 9.0?  I have just moved over from SuSE 8.0 and have
> > tried to set my connection to Vispa up creating and/or editing all the
> > revelant files as root such as /etc/ppp/peers/vispa, /etc/ppp/chat-vispa
> > and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets (I know that the authentication protocol is
> > CHAP I managed to get that out of them) but no joy the modem reacts and
> > dials but drops the connection immediately.
> >
> > I have followed a guide on Mandrake's website (can be found at
> > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cppp.html) to the letter but
> > still no luck so can only assume that 1) there is a typo in the document
> > 2) it's not relevant to Mandrake 9.0 as it is a year old I think 3)
> > there's a problem with my copy of Mandrake 9! or 4) I need a combination
> > of 'options' for /etc/pp/options that I haven't come up with yet (and am
> > not likely to either).  BTW I cannot get it to work using KPPP or
> > GNOMEPPP either.  And yes I do know my username, password, modem
> > init-string and dial-up No. and have typed them all in correctly to the
> > best of my knowledge.
> >
> > This was never a problem with SuSE, for all it's flakiness (IMHO) it did
> > get me online with the connection wizard during installation and then
> > Kinternet.
> >
> > I am a relative novice with Linux and this is my first list post please
> > don't shout am desperate to get this working it's driving me mad!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Simon Robinson
>
> What do you have in the /etc/ppp/options file ? I found this many times to
> be the source of a few problems for me !
>
>
>
>
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