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Re: PPP connection



Hi,

are you sure you want to do an install over your telephone line? I have no
experience with this, but have you provided nameservers? (see
/etc/resolv.conf for it). 
Can you ping/telnet when manually starting up ppp (with: pon <pppname>)?
What do the logs say? For example, do on one terminal
tail -f /var/log/syslog

and try again.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan
 

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Steve Linksted wrote:

> Hi,
> I am installing Debian for the first time, on a clean hard disk.  I got through the basic installation OK, and have now reached the APT setup part.  It asks to configure PPP, which I have done, and it then goes off and dials the modem and seemingly connects succesfully.  However, when it then goes to test the connection, nothing appears to happen.  I have set the options to UK, and it asks for FTP or HTTP connections, but neither option appears to do anything - not even flash the TX/RX lights on the modem.  What have I overlooked?  
> Hope someone can help, as without this bit, it's all a bit useless really!
> Cheers,
> Steve.
> 
> 



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