Jill, two thoughts for you:
1) Are you using the correct login type for your ISP? I am not a command line guru,
or even a Linux expert, like Lawson and Ray, but I use KDE, as well. I could not
connect to my ISP after I changed my login type to PLIP. When I changed it back to
PPP, it worked fine. Also, does your ISP require a login script? You may need to go
back to Windows and look at your Dial-Up Networking setup to verify.
2) I can't remember the final outcome of your modem difficulties, but it seems to me
the problem could be your modem. Is it Plug-n-Pray? Linux didn't even acknowledge
the existence of my modem, until I jumpered it to use Com2, IRQ3, and disabled my
motherboards built-in Com2. Once I did that, I was able to setup my connection, from
recognizing the modem to "Connected" in a couple of minutes.
I am at work, and am running NT here (Yuck!), but I'll catch up w/ you from my Linux
box at home. It sounds like we are coming from the same background, i.e., sick of
Windows, but definitely GUI people, and gone to Linux not necessarily to be a "power
user" (I hate that term!), but just wanted something that is stable and doesn't assume
you are an idiot. I have been running MacMillan Complete Linux 6.5 (based on Mandrake
6.5, which is, I believe, based on Red Hat 6.1) for about a week and a half, and have
been able to do 90% of everything I want. Good luck!
Allen Linkenhoker
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On Sat, 27 May 2000 11:48:21 Jill wrote:
>Hi ray and all
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>> >> us the output of "ls -l /var/log" so we can see if ANYTHING is doing
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>The output of that command, ( must have been a typo somewhere as havenot yet
>figured out how to copy and paste from terminal yet)
>total 215
>--rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41499 may 26 10:26
>boot.log
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6455 may 26 19.09
>cron
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2844 may 26 10.25
>demsg
>--rw-r-r-- 1 root root 0 may 26 16.55
>htmlaccess.log
>-rw-r-- 1 root root 29492 may 26 21.08
>lastlog
>-rw---- 1 ROOT root 1 may 26 23.03
>maillog
>-rw--- 1 root root 3300 may 26 10.26
>maillog~
>-rw---- 1 root root 1 may 26
>20.48 messages
>-rw---- 1 root root 1 may 26
>20.48 messages~
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1674 may 27 00.55
>netconfig.log
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 apr 16 1999
>samba
>--rw---- 1 root root 67 may 27
>02.49 secure
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 616 may 26
>00.58 sendmail.st
>-rw----- 1 root root 0 may 25
>16.59 spooler
>drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 1024 may 25
>17.00 uucp
>-re-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 148608 may 26
>21.08 wtmp
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