[hllug] Re: Dial up limbo
- From: Stevie <slider2tx@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:25:39 -0500
Yes I would definitely do a fresh install of Kppp, after of course making
sure any old traces and config files were emoved from the system. Sometimes
this has worked very well for me in the past. As you already know, be very
careful using the purge command hehe! :-p
Slider
Proud user of Linux Mint /KDE operating system
http://www.linuxmint.com/
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Don Crowder <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:50:21 -0500
> Stevie <slider2tx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Don
> >
> > Have you tried any of these???
> >
> > http://manual.sidux.com/en/internet-connecting-en.htm#dial-mod
> >
> > http://support.real-time.com/linux/dialup/kppp.html (mentioned in
> > Sidux manual) (also check your man pages on that app in terminal)
> >
> >
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=220960&sid=a4f66026c9f550c7df051433dbb3088b
> > (Debian)
> >
> > http://www.aboutdebian.com/modems.htm (Debian)
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kppp (Debian package)
> >
> > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdenetwork/kppp/index.html (Kppp
> > handbook)
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kppp (wikipedia)
> >
> >
> http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux/152273-how-get-kppp-installed-debian.html
>
> Yeah, I've visited some of these several times now. I was just
> complaining without the intention of 'going into it' but I'm really
> stumped here and my friend Len will be here Saturday to pick this thing
> up.
>
> Here's what's happening:
>
> From a root terminal I can get a response from the modem via the echo
> command on ttyS0 but kppp, whether invoked as user or root, can't see
> the modem (I have two and have tried both). The modems are US Robotics
> 56K external models.
>
> I thought about going with pon and poff (which I've sucessfully used
> previously) but not only is pppd not onboard, it's not in the
> repository. Anyway, kppp really should work for me if I could just
> find some sort of clue.
>
> This silly thing has me going in circles. Kmail wouldn't send email
> (via a gmail account) no matter what I did. I went through the set up
> meticulously, several times. I finally just fired up synaptic,
> downloaded claws-mail (the new spiffy GTK version of Sylpheed Claws),
> plugged in the same data and it worked like a champ. Go figure.
>
> Maybe I should reinstall kppp? Suggestions anyone?
> --
> Don Crowder
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