Re: PPP or no PPP ....
I am still using bo, but most, if not all, of my reply will be valid for
hamm too.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Gutfraind wrote:
> During hamm installation I entered the details of my modem
> and of my ISP (IP, user, password..).
> I have started pon and have heard the modem hand-shake, but
> what's next?
> I didn't get any details of what have happened. Appearently,
> the connection was successful,
> because the modem did not disconnect.
> 1) How can I check my connection status?
Type:
/usr/sbin/ifconfig
This will show the status of ppp and eth net connections.
> I reasoned that if the connction was indeed successful,
> dselect's ftp would work.
You could have a good connection, but it your system would be unable to
resolve host names to numerical addresses unless you had nameserver access
set up correctly. Try to ping a well known host by name. If that doesnt
work, try by numerical address. If you can ping by numerical address, but
not by name, your name service is prolly misconfigured.
> I used the default connection options, and dselect simply
> wrote: "failed".
> What's next? 2) What could be the problem?
To see what your chat script did, and what your ppp server said back, look
at /usr/adm/ppp.log This location valid for bo, I dont know about hamm.
> I would like to get most of the standard packages, if not
> through debian, than by windoz'ing,
> but, 3) where, appart from dselect, I can find the list of
> the standard packages, or to know which
> packs are standard (using more than newbie educated guessing
> mechanism...)
>
You can see the package decriptions on the website.
Mike
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