The problem of no site opening in KPPP has been resolved, although I don't know if the method is right.
After a bootup, the 'Network Device Control' has to be called up first to activate any of the dialup accounts ppp0, ppp1, ppp2 ....The modem will dial to the ISP and then the sites open. The connection should be now closed to run kppp.
Closing this connection is also tricky as it is never shown as 'active', either the RedHat software has bugs or its the third party modem driver problem, I really don't know. So a trick method was tried and it works.
The 'activate' button is clicked for the same active connection and that interrupts the modem to start dialing again. As it starts dialling, click the 'activate' button again and this time the window waits. Immediately click on the 'X' button on the top right corner to simply close the window. This stops the dialing. Come out of 'N D C' and then use kppp as if nothing ever was wrong, till you reboot again.
Regards,
Rony.
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:20:18 +0530 Rony Bill ronbilly@hotpop.com wrote:
The problem of no site opening in KPPP has been resolved, although I don't know if the method is right.
This might not be relevant, but have you tried the ppp-howto? I'm in Mumbai & when got my mtnl dial-up connection, I started with kppp & it was up & running with hardly any tweaking needed. However, since I was running it from within FVWM, it had its own memory overhead & I wanted to keep things light & fast...
wvdial didn't work from some reason & then I tried the ppp-howto. The entire guide is _very_ useful. However, I just followed the howto from http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html#AEN1005 & now I'm able to connect by executing my own home-build shell script with hardly any memory-footprint...
Just my 2p.
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 21:20, Soumen wrote:
This might not be relevant, but have you tried the ppp-howto? I'm in Mumbai & when got my mtnl dial-up connection, I started with kppp & it was up & running with hardly any tweaking needed. However, since I was running it from within FVWM, it had its own memory overhead & I wanted to keep things light & fast...
My problem is that kppp connects well to the isp but in the browser or email client, no site is accessable. I checked out the firewall by disabling it too. If I use the system's 'network device control', it connects as well as opens any site. But it shows the connection as 'inactive' and so the 'deactivate' button is never highlighted, so the trick, to shut it. After this first ritual, kppp connects as well as opens sites till I don't shut down or reboot my syatem.
What I observed before and after running the 'N D C' was that the lsmod command lists 3 modules only after the ritual. They are ppp_async, ppp_generic and slhc. I will go to your site and find out the local scripting. If I can add these modules in the startup script, this ritual may not be necessary.
Thanks,
Rony.
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