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01-17-2008, 06:18 AM
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 having problems with kppp on mandrake 9.1 I am using whatever versions of kppp, kde and so on that Mandrake 9.1 installs by default. Startup mandrake 9.1, login, run kppp and it says "cant find /dev/modem/" Check and "/dev/modem" doesnt exist. Fire up drakconf and click on "configure internet". Follow that through (plug in modem details, connection details etc). Click connect. It connects and I can use the net. Then, if I have to reboot, it gives me the same "cant find /dev/modem" problem and if I load drakconf, all the settings have been unset somehow (i.e. it doesnt recognize the phone number. Is there some way to: a.reset any config files that may have screwed up back to the defaults and b.get kppp to be configured with my ISP details and get them to stay there even if I reboot? Even better would be if I could have kppp dial in as soon as I start KDE, anyone know how I could do that.      |
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01-17-2008, 06:18 AM
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| Re: having problems with kppp on mandrake 9.1 Hello Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I am using whatever versions of kppp, kde and so on that Mandrake 9.1 > installs by default. Startup mandrake 9.1, login, run kppp and it says > "cant find /dev/modem/" > Check and "/dev/modem" doesnt exist. > Fire up drakconf and click on "configure internet". > Follow that through (plug in modem details, connection details etc). > Click connect. It connects and I can use the net. Then, if I have to > reboot, it gives me the same "cant find /dev/modem" problem and if I > load drakconf, all the settings have been unset somehow (i.e. it > doesnt recognize the phone number. Is there some way to: > a.reset any config files that may have screwed up back to the defaults > and b.get kppp to be configured with my ISP details and get them to > stay there even if I reboot? Even better would be if I could have kppp > dial in as soon as I start KDE, anyone know how I could do that. /dev/modem is a symbolic link pointing to your modem device, which is /dev/ttys? if you have conntected your modem to a serial port (the ? stands for the number of the port, ttyS0 is COM1, ttyS1 is COM2 and so on). You can either create the link by hand (but as Mandrake uses devfs by default, the changes will probably be forgotten after rebooting), or you set the modem device in kppp and draknet directly do the real device entry instead of the symlink. As far as I remember, draknet's config can be found somewhere in /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/networking. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 |
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