Hi Jose, I can sympthize with you, I tried for days to get connected,
but to no avail. I used the PPP-HOWTO and the CONFIGURE-HOWTO and
couldn't seem to go anywhere. I was using three scripts called ppp-on,
ppp-on-dialer and ppp-off and whenever i tried to use them they did not
work. I them thought I would make them accessible by all users and
issued the command chmod 750 ppp-on etc etc. This was however wrong and
what this did was made these files executable, and low and behold when
cd'd myself to the dir (/etc/ppp/scripts) and typed ppp-on it worked :)
and now I have a working ppp connection, althjough I still cannot figure
out how to make the ppp scripts accessible by all users and still have
to log on as root.
Keep trying you will get there in the end :)
Phil
Jos� Albores wrote:
>
> I read 'Net-3-HOWTO', 'Ppp-HOWTO' 'Serial-HOWTO' and 'Dns-HOWTO' both in
> english and in spanish and couldn't setup my ppp connection. I tried
> later with many of the 17 Ppp-faq with same results for almost a month,
> and I am still NOT connected to my ISP. Same after posting lots of
> e-mails in different mailing lists, and I really appreciate all the
> hints I received...
> I don't understand lots of terms but of course, I'm not a 'computerist'.
> Yesterday, without knowing why or how, I could navigate with netscape
> for linux. But today -and without touching anything- again Netscape says
> that it cannot find a DNS entry...
> My two questions are:
> - Is there ONE AND JUST one file or howto or book that explains
> 'really-how-to' get connected???
> - Is this the usual learning/training curve for newest Linux users or
> just a matter of incompatibility between 'him' and me and I should stop
> this issue and go back to easier Operating Systems?!
> TIA and excuse me for my plea...
>
> --
> J.M.Albores
