Re: [Sheflug] Re:the newbie is back

[Ross <nospam [at] virgin.net>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Pete Smith wrote:
> setting up "dial up"
> I have played with the settings until when I connect I get the modem dialing
> out "connect"/speed. "starting pppd" then I get an error message "ppp daemon
> died unexpectedly" when I check the log I get the very helpful message
> "sorry can't help you there"
> If it makes any difference I have 2 modems one internal winmodem on com port
> 3 & an externel motorola 28.8 on com port 2. This is the one I have setup in
> Linux on dev/tty1/ would there being one on port 3 make any problems.
> Any help most welcome.
> Thanks
> Pete
> 

i had a similar problem when i installed diald...... the problem was with the
/etc/resolv.conf   file . how did you set up your connection?
kppp/wvdial/linuxconf/manually ?
you need to have some sort of name server configured either local or remote....

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Thanks,
        Ross
               ros.h [at] virgin.net
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