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Re: Eaugh. Connection problems.



[Please, please, please wrap your lines at something sensible]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:41:43PM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote:
> Okay, so I went through the twelve-hour download and install without
> significant hitches.  (A few files had to be retried because my modem
> connection dropped a few times during the download.)  My problem now
> is that, having restarted, I can't seem to get a working modem
> connection again.  At first, I thought it was a password problem, as
> the password in pppconfig had been inexplicably overwritten, but even
> when I fixed that, I was able to connect, but not actually do anything
> with the connection.  (Pings and the like just went to Mars or
> something.)  I'm using the stable release, and I installed the first
> four tasks and the C task.  What did I mess up, and how do I fix it?

Check your routing using 'route -n'.  You should not have a default
route when you're offline, and when you dialup it should be ppp0.

> Also, KDE was installed as part of one of the tasks.  How do I get it,
> or indeed any window manager, to actually go, preferably at bootup?  I
> don't particularly care for text mode... 

Install kdm, xdm or gdm and you'll get a graphical login.

-rob

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