>>>>> "G" == Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
G> A partial fix for this issue: My wife went over to see if she
G> could suid or whatever to fix it, and we discovered that the
G> fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 had omitted ppp!
G> Someone needs to check the RPMs: If Gnome-ppp is installed,
G> does it make any sense to put it on the menu but then /not/ to
G> install ppp?
It gets worse: using rpmdrake to install pppd, it still failed because
the modem is not configured. We quickly discovered they hadn't installed
linuxconf, so modemconf was not installed, but after installing modemconf
and running it to config the modem, the modem was set correctly on
ttyS0 (tts/0) but with read-only permissions.
manually fixed the permissions on tts/0, still could not connect with
gnome-ppp --- manually created a pap-secrets file and we could then
connect, but it would not use the DNS servers listed in the gnome-ppp
account record!
That's where we sit now; I'm sending someone over there to do some
detail debugging, but it's not a good advertisement for Linux when it
requires a house-call from networking tech just to connect to an ISP
;)
I know they had installed without including the network tools, probably
just as a bare workstation, so what /should/ we have done to migrate the
bare install to a dialup-networking station?
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