On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:21:32PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > I'm trying to install potato over a PPP connection between a laptop with no > > network card (hermod) and a desktop with ethernet (bolverk). > > > > I can communicate over the null modem between machines with minicom no > > problem. > > > > hermod:~# pppd -detach /dev/ttyS0 57600 192.168.5.2:192.168.5.1 crtscts > > debug noauth > > bolverk:~# pppd -detach /dev/ttyS1 57600 192.168.5.1:192.168.5.2 crtscts > > debug noauth > You can setup a user on the "server" so that when the user logs in, pppd > would be started; in /etc/passwd: > pppuser:.......:/usr/local/bin/ppplogin > in which ppplogin basically a script that starts pppd: > /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/options > On the client machine, set a ppp connection up with a self-written chat > script; the script handles the login: and password: prompts. I tried something slightly simpler. I used bash as the shell and tried to start pppd manually over the serial connection. This might mean something: in minicom: bolverk:/etc/ppp# pppd noauth (hangs) in an eterm on bolverk: bolverk:/home/odin# pppd noauth ~ÿ}#À!}!}!} }4}"}&} } } } (etc.) The latter looks right, but why on earth does it work and not the former? I copied my /etc/ppp/options file to /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1 to make sure there weren't weird differences in how it was being started even. For some reason, pppd just won't chatter over my serial ports... it's quite confusing. > If you have a network card on your laptop, it would be nice; you can setup > IP alias feature on the kernel so that you can monitor both machines with > ease (you don't have to go back and forth between them). Just use a > network number for the ethernet and another for the ppp link. I wish. I have a network card coming by mail order (about a week-1/2 to deliver). If I had it already, I wouldn't care about setting up pppd. I just want to install software and get the laptop usable sooner rather than later. It seems a waste to have such a nice machine with only the base system on it. Thanks for your help. -Dan -- "Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
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