I am running LM 7.1. I had a problem when using compression with
pppd. The connection would work for short while and then hang.
Only when I disabled compression did I get it to work reliably.
I didn't use kppp so I don't know where you should put these. But
try these options:
nodeflate
noaccomp
noccp
nopcomp
novj
novjccomp
Bill
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> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Problem connecting to Internet
>
>
> 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
>
>
