Re: [Sheflug] Re:the newbie is back

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Pete Smith wrote:

>OK to my problem all seems well except modem connection 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"

As root

mv /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/options.orig
touch /etc/ppp/options

IIRC the stock /etc/ppp/options on corel conflicts with kppp (or dial-up as
Corel have called it) and so it's easiest to go to a blank one like this.

atb

Martin

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