Hi, I've been trying to connect to the Internet from Linux but without success, I hope someone on the list can help me. I'm using a dual-boot WinXP/Fedora Core 1 setup, and can connect from Windows without a problem.
My connection is through an Ethernet card connected to a Motorola SB4200 cable-modem. My ISP is Netvision and my cable company is Matav (I live in Haifa). First thing I did was to setup my Ethernet card using redhat-config-network as detailed in http://www.iarc.org/~ezaton/cables for people who need to use a dialer. After itdown and ifup I saw using /sbin/ifconfig that eth0 was up and running. Then I downloaded the connection tarball from Netvision, and after following the instructions in the readme (editing the files /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets) I ran the cablestart script. All the steps seem to be going well (I tried running them manually) up to the ./pptp-linux call. There the script seemed to encounter a problem, only I don't know what problem. If I do /sbin/ifconfig I get a ppp0 entry for a short while (less then a minute) but then it stops. The only place where I saw anything suspicious is in /var/log/messages where I see a line complaining that ppp-compress 21 can't be found, or something like that. Has anyone with my setup (Netvision/Matav) been able to connect to the Net? What am I doing wrong? Should I be using a different pptp binary? Hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance, -------------------------- Offer Kaye ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
