In a follow up to this problem... Formatted and started all over again and am still running into the same problem except it is even worse now.
If i use netconf to do any thing with the ppp0 scripts pppd begins to fail with error #17. (Thank god again for backups!) Also, any pppX scripts that i make with netconf fail with the same error message. Right now the only ppp dial up script that can be used is the one i generate during installation and if i use netconf to make any changes to it it begins to fail and keeps failing even when i go back in netconf and undo the changes i made. The only way i can get the ppp0 script to work after using netconf is to restore the backup i made of the network scripts directory. Am i missing some part of netconf or a library or something? I installed from a CD I burned after downloading the ISO image right after 8.0 came out and i know that the burner didnt burn "tin" correctly, could it have messed up burning something else? if so what? Or am i going about this all wrong and should not be using netconf to generate ppp dial up scripts? On an aside, netconf seems to work flawlessly when configuring LAN nics. On another aside, I found an answer to the automount question i had. Thanks again, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ian K.Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I installed LM8.0 on a computer at work and ran into a problem. > > During installation i configured a dialup (ppp0) account to our ISP using a > 3com external modem on ttys0 > > After rebooting and loading into linux for the first time i made sure that the > dialup account worked by logging in as root and running /sbin/ifup ppp0. This > part went fine. > > I made a few backups (thank god!) and went into netconf to change ppp0 so that > it could be controlled by any user. This was the only change made and netconf > did not report any errors but now when anyone, root or a regular user, tries > to run /sbin/ifup ppp0 the pppd daemon exits with either error #6 unable to > lock the serial port, error #8 connection script failed, or error #17 which is > serial loopback detection. The most common is error #17. The other 2 show up > about 1 time in 10. > > After tring /sbin/ifup ppp0 about 100 times and double checking everything > over and over again I finally gave up for the day and went back into netconf > and changed it so that regular users could not control the device. Then went > back and tried /sbin/ifup ppp0 and it started exiting with the same errors. > > Being totally frustrated i restored the backup i had made of /etc and then > tried /sbin/ifup ppp0. It worked flawlessly. I then went home and ate turkey, > mashed potatoes with gravy and washed it all down with a few cold ones while > watching football. Man what a way to alleviate stress. :) > > Came back in this morning and performed a format and complete reinstall only > to run through the same problems all over again. > > Anyone have any ideas on what is wrong and how to fix it? > > On another note, I was considering installing LM8.1 but has read somewhere on > this list previously that Mandrake had broken the automount. Is there a patch > out yet that corrects this? > > Thanks in advance, > Ian K. Harrell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------- > Attachment:�message.footer > MIME Type:�text/plain > ---------------------------------------------
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