Re: Can't make internet connection
"Jerry" == Jerry Van Brimmer <jerryvb@toast.net> writes:
Jerry> Hi All, I'm brand spanking new to debian. I have managed to
Jerry> get Woody installed, and now I'm trying to get ppp
Jerry> configured. I installed kppp and am using that to try to
Jerry> connect to the internet. I created all of my account and
Jerry> modem settings in kppp to match the ones in kppp in my
Jerry> Mandrake installation. In Woody, when I dial my isp, as
Jerry> soon as kppp tries to make the connection I get an error
Jerry> message window saying pppd exited with an "Exit status
Jerry> 1". Man pppd says: "An immediately fatal error of some kind
Jerry> occurred, such as an essential system call failing, or run-
Jerry> ning out of virtual memory." I have no idea what that
Jerry> means. Can someone help please?
Disclaimer: I don't use kppp or a modem anymore. However be aware that
if you are running kppp as a normal user, that user should be in the
dialout group. For example, on my system
$ ls -l /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jan 24 2002 /dev/ttyS0
Basically, add your user id to /etc/group for the dialout line. Log
out, login, verify that you are in the group with the groups command.
It's been a while since I used ppp (thanks to my DSL connection :-)
but I would certainly suggest looking into pppconfig unless you are
very partial to KDE.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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