[Sderby] kppp & SuSE Linux 8.1

[Gordon Mitchell]

David,

I have had similar problems going from Suse 7.3 to 8. My fix was as follows

Edit /etc/ppp/options and uncomment the following options
noipdefault
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote

I also had to edit /etc/ppp/peers/kppp and add the following entries. 
(However this was only required for one of the connections I use.)

defaultroute
replacedefaultroute

I have to admit that as a user rather than a developer of linux, I can 
symathaise and agree with you comments.

Regards
Gordon


david joseph wrote:
> Hello everyone, and belated new year's greetings.  I've just installed 
> Suse Linux 8.1 professional, and (sigh) here I go again, endless hours 
> trying to get a working system up and running - one that I can use to do 
> some_ productive_  computing.
> It's so frustrating - I know I'm not alone - endless re-installs, 
> endless loads of just about every distribution going in a fruitless 
> search for the holy grail of a useable Linux system and of course 
> endless hassles along the way. And I still don't have even a basic bog 
> standard Linux system that I can use!.  No wonder Microsoft rule the 
> universe!
> 
> Anyway sorry for the rave, but I can't get the kppp dialer work - even 
> when I'm logged in as root! It dials out ok, then promply dies.
> Trying to use kppp to dial out for any other user is even move hopeless 
> - just get the message  - "you have insufficient permissions etc" - well 
> I've tried using chmod etc and even editing  /etc/pam.d (changing 
> required to sufficient in every permutation!) So what am I missing? What 
> really drives me nuts is that I had no problems with kppp when I was 
> running SuSE 7.3 A few more incremental improvements like that and SuSE 
> will be following Mandrake down the pan of computing history
> 
> I really feel that the Linux community needs to address the issue of 
> making Linux more user friendly and easier to set up.  What's the point 
> of thousands of programmes yet not being able to access the internet or 
> have a half decent word processor available.
> If you enjoy playing with computers great - but if you also want to use 
> a computer in other productive ways Linux is not that great.
> When I attended a sderby LUG meeting last year, I was impressed by the 
> fluency and knowledge of some of the members - but it was also 
> reassuring to find that my experiences with Linux were not unique.
> I really want to see Linux succeed - but there are some serious issues 
> to be addressed.
> Any comments anyone - and please don't jump down my throat for telling 
> you your baby is ugly and you've dressed it funny.
> I still prefer Linux to Windows.
> 
> Sorry this has turned into War and Peace - I expect it's an unforgivable 
> breach of Netiquete
> 
> 
> Yours to a cinder, David Joseph
> 
> 
> p.s. this come to you courtesy of wvdial
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