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Hi,

I'm a pretty-new be. I'm trying to get connected to my Internet
provider. Someone told me to do a pppsetup, wich I did. Pppsetup asked
me the phonenumber to dial, and some other stuff.
I answered all the questions, it made a script called pppscript.
I believe ppp-go runs this script when I execute it.
So, I do a ppp-go, and I wait for about an hour, go out for some food,
walk the dog, walk the cat, clean up my room and do all sorts of other
things, then I take another look at the screen and see that nothing has
changed.
So I kill ppp-go and start minicom (this is what the person at the
helpdesk told me to do when ppp doesn't work). I have minicom dial the
number of my provider and the modem screams (as it is supposed to) then
it looks as if I'm connected to the server. The server sends User name.
. .. .  verification. . . . . . . Use. . . .rname: . . .
%
User name. . .. .  verification. . . . .
Use. . . .rname: Timeou. . ..  .t expi . . .. red. . .
User name. . .. .  verification. . . . .

It' veeeery sloooow. . .
I also don't understand the %

Can anybody out there help me out ? Typing this message under W95 is
killing me !

I believe I have done all the necassery things like:
compile a kernel with TCP/IP and PPP support.
I'm running Slackware 3.4
kernel 2.0.34
I've got a bullet PC336RVP

Thanks,

        Michiel Roos

After "nothing happens" phase starts, you may try to check whether
your ppp connection is actually established,
% plog
should show a vital
 pppd[152]: Serial connection established.
 Using interface ppp0
 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem

then you can also have a look at the output of
netstat -r
ifconfig
pppstats

If this all looks reasonable, you could try running ftp, finger,
telnet etc. right from your shell.
(If your /etc/resolv.conf is not edited yet, you should use
all those 128.100.... addresses.)
Wish this helped.
a.

Quote:

>I'm a pretty-new be. I'm trying to get connected to my Internet
>provider. Someone told me to do a pppsetup, wich I did. Pppsetup asked

Quote:>So, I do a ppp-go, and I wait for about an hour, go out for some food,
>walk the dog, walk the cat, clean up my room and do all sorts of other
>things, then I take another look at the screen and see that nothing has
>changed.

unless things have changed dramatically in the past two
years, setting up ppp as newbie, requires a _lot_ of work and it
helps to have access to another's setup files for examples (preferably
someone who uses your provider).

i suggest you do more reading (including the man page for ifconfig).
there is a log file, too, that can be helpful (it's /var/log/messages
in Slackware, maybe others in that dir) once you get the number to dial.

not sure, but i think i was able to initially connect with
minicom, do all of the passwd stuff and start the pppd running on the
host, then start ppp at home (this was dialling into work, not an ISP).
you can tell by the garbage char's echoing to your display that ppp is
running on the host.  you then exit minicom (without resetting the
modem) and start your pppd.  i don't remember exact commands, but this
is probably in a Howto.

good luck,

loren