Subject: Re: PPP Connection
From: Dylan Ward (dylan.@esatclear.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 13:41:40 MST
I'd love ADSL but unfortunately in my country you have to pay big bucks
(uhh, Euro) to get high speed access. Thanks for the advice though.
Dylan
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 03:50 , Gotse Grosdanof wrote:
> I also couldn't get PPP to work on a desktop G4 400 after trying
> everyones
> advice. Also couldn't get PPPOE for high speed ADSL Modem.....MY
> SOLUTION>>>>>>>>>I GOT A DSL ROUTER/SWITCHER FROM SMC AND REINSTALLED
> WITH
> CONFIGURING NETWORK FOR DHCP AND PRESTO I'M ONLINE! NOT A VERY PATIENT
> SOLUTION BUT I'M NEW TO LINUX AS WELL AND WITHOUT BEING ONLINE....WHATS
> THE
> POINT.
>
> CHEERS!
>
> Dylan Ward wrote:
>
>> You answered my question the other day (29/12/01: "Re: Modem trouble")
>> about getting a PowerBook to dial out to my ISP. I followed your
>> advice
>> and I am still getting the error message "Sorry, can't open modem". I
>> am using kppp as well, but it just does not want to see the modem. I
>> am
>> still fairly new to Linux, so I keep thinking maybe I have missed
>> something. Can you help me with anything? All help is greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Dylan
>>
>> P.S. Thanks for responding the last time...
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at 11:08 , Andy Hocker wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Chuck Franklin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone resolved how to get an iBook to make a ppp connection with
>>>> YDL
>>>> 2.1? Reviewing the archives I found a HOWTO about editing the
>>>> ppp-on-dialer
>>>> script, but it fails, with numerous errors when you do a perl -c on
>>>> the
>>>> script.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I use kppp to do PPP with my iBook and it worked fine after
>>> a little futzing around...
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
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>>> University of Rochester phone: (630)-840-8622
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>>>
>
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