I was fooling with the networking configurater and all of a sudden from
having a perfect Kppp modem set up I started getting exactly as described
below. So I went back in and took out all of the network config stuff and
rebooted and voila! I have my connection back. My suggestion is to go into
Drakconf and make sure all of the networking config is blank with the
exception of your NIC card config. The "routing and gateway" try blank as
well as anything else. I have'nt figured just how but somehow the loop back
or something is trying to talk to itself. PPP0 can be configured too if you
want.
Steve Elliott wrote:
> I too have been battling a modem install under 7.1 all weekend. Tried
> all the timeout tricks on this list, tried the noauth option - still no
> go.
> In the end i had to download a program called qppp i think it was, and
> that did the trick once it was configured.
> But using either ppp under Linux conf, or gnome ppp, ( i installed from
> 2 cd iso set - maybe kppp does not come on that ? ) the ppp daemon died
> always. I think it seemed to be a problem with the PAP config, howver
> that seems to work fine under the program i downloaded.
> Any other battles like this ?
>
> Barry Premeaux wrote:
> >
> > Dariusz S Stochmal wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 for the first time. During
> > > installation it detected my external modem, and it did setup my
> > > internet connection. My problem is that when I login into kde desktop,
> > > and use kppp tool (there is a icon on the desktop which says Internet
> > > and it looks something like Windows dialup connection) to dial to
> > > internet I can't connect. During connection process, there is a brief
> > > "handshaking" going on, and then my connection will drop and error
> > > appears "PPPD Demon Died Unexpectedly".
> > >
> > > Anybody with any ideas ? Is there other way for me to connect to
> > > Internet ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Dariusz S Stochmal
> > >
> > > E-mail 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > E-mail 2: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Home Page:http://www.stochmal.com/
> > >
> > Look under the Kppp Setup, you will find a wait time for the daemon.
> > The default setting is something like 30 seconds. I extended the time
> > to 120 seconds which
> > which worked well for me.
> >
> > --
> > Barry :-)
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