Henningsen wrote:
> I send this email from Windows because I have not managed to get my internet
> connection to work on Mandrake 7.0. I suspect that "provider" may not be
> installed, because when I enter "man provider" at a command line, i get "No
> manual entry for provider" (I do have manual entries for all other stuff I
> tried). How can I test whether that is installed, and in what package would
> it be? A search for a file named provider through my entire system turned up
> zilch, but I found a program provideIP.
>
> I can establish a connection with my ISP through kppp, but that's about it.
> Obviously my DNS service does not work. When, from a command line, I do
> "ping whitehouse.gov", nothing happens (I can see the outgoing packets in
> kpp-details, but none come in, and there is no output in the console. When I
> try "ping 198.137.241.30" (this is the address of whitehouse gov), I see
> pings going in and out in kppp-details, but from the command line I get
> messages returned like "46 packets transmitted, 0 packets received". In kpp
> statistics, packets out and non-vj have the same number in them (I don't
> know what non-vj means), whereas packets in has a nice high number, but all
> three numbers under it are 0 (vjcomp.in , vjunc.in , vjerr). Finally, when I
> ping the remote address things work well, I get as many packets in as out
> reported on the command line.
>
> Running Netscape I got the warning that Netscape could not locate
> internic.net, and the suggestion I should set the environment variable
> $SOCKS_NS to my name server, which i tried, but which did not change things.
>
> On my system log I found the following debug messages which may be relevant:
> Connect ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
> LCP: timeout sending config-requests
> Connection terminated
> Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
> Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
>
> I read through the entire help system of kpp and worked for hours trying to
> fix this, but I am at my wit's end. Any help from you guys would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Peter Henningsen
> alifegames.com
Hi, just on the off chance that what I saw may be the problem, did you set up
your connection in KPPP? Most of the traffic I have seen and my own experience
show that having the modem set to " /dev/modem " won't work. You need to set it
to the ttsy0, 1,2, or 3 depending on the Com port it shows up in on your
computer. Just in case you are not aware, ttys0 corresponds to Com 1, ttys1
corresponds to Com 2 etc. Let us know how you are setting up, in PPP or KPPP on
the desktop. Luck ,
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Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
