At 12:48 00.07.09.. +0200, Paul wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Dariusz S Stochmal wrote:
> >I have installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 for the first time. [...]
> >During connection process, there is a brief handshaking going on,
> >and then my connection will drop and error appears
> >PPPD Demon Died Unexpectedly.
>
>This has come up before on the list. Set your timeout value (or something
>like that) higher, from 60 to 400 seconds or so. That apparently is
>helping many people
I have absolutely the same problem, and unfortunately increasing timeout
value to 400 doesn't help. Connection seems to start normally, then it
pauses for a while and brokes telling daemon has died suddenly. Kppp's
diagnosis is just "Sorry. Can't help you here" (how clear, isn't
it...) PPP Logfile tells something also not fully understandable for me:
Jul 8 14:14:18 linu2 pppd[4560]: By default the remote system is required
to authenticate itself
Jul 8 14:14:18 linu2 pppd[4560]: (because this system has a default route
to the internet)
Jul 8 14:14:18 linu2 pppd[4560]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret
(password) for it to use to do so.
Jul 8 14:14:18 linu2 pppd[4560]: (None of the available passwords would
let it use an IP address.)
Username and password is definitely OK, I have repeatedly tested them.
Installation now is US English to avoid possible locale problems (there are
plenty of them in other parts of Mandrake). I haven't changed any other
kppp parameters besides Account name, Provider phone No., two DNS server
addresses given by provider, my username and password. Now temporarily
also timeout value which didn't help. All other parameters set by Mandrake
installation seem to be OK. Dialing and modem handshake is OK. I use DHCP.
Provider confirms that PAP is allowed, however they don't have any Linux
specialists to help me. Modem is decent external USRobotics. All hardware
works OK on the same machine with Windows NT 4.0. Besides, I can easily
connect same provider using same username and password in WinNT environment
on the same machine.
Unfortunately Mandrake support is very slow to respond - if ever, don't
know, haven't received yet any reaction from them, being registered
Mandrake Essential 7.1 and Powerpack 7.0 user. Two questions, one for each
system, both are still unanswered. (so folks CD's from Cheapbytes are
absolutely as valuable as "official" box...) There is no FAQ on Mandrake
website either, even for 7.0 not to speak about 7.1 . Seems that popularity
is playing bad scaling games with Mandrake... So hopefully somebody who
has already solved this dialup problem will please explain what to do.
One thing is sure - there definitely _is_ nasty Dialup problem in Mandrake
with default installation and it is more complex than just modem or timeout
settings. I have seen more then few people asking in networks about this
"suddenly dying" pppd but no working answers beyond "man pppd" - which
might be good way but not for the very first steps of newbie being cut off
from main info source, Internet, unable to connect his provider. I had to
re-install WinNT <sigh>.
Harry
