[Sussex] New & fairly incompetent Linux user

[Geoff Teale]

Paul Baines wrote:

>Hiya, I'm a new(ish) Linux user in Sussex & just signed up to the
>mailing list. 
>
Welcome to the Sussex Linux User Group.

>Just to be slightly irritating my first post is a plea
>for help! I've been trying & trying to sort out my dial-up internet
>connection but I can't make it at all reliable. It generally takes
>about five attempts to connect and then it usually hangs after the
>first page is loaded. It will normally work if I perservere for long
>enough though so I don't understand why? I dial-up via KPPP and my ISP
>is UKLinux.net (I wouldn't have thought it was an ISP problem though),
>the DNS servers are manually configured & set to the correct addresses
>(i think!) but still no reliability. Sometimes it's fine though,
>somebody suggested that perhaps I need to lock /etc/resolv.conf and
>stop KPPP overwriting it each time. Does that sound plausible? Any
>suggestions greatly appreciated from all you knowldegable people!
>  
>
I've used UKLinux's dial-up service (though not for 2 years now) and 
there are a couple of gotchas I recall.  The first is that the handshake 
is PAP not CHAP - it sounds like you're past that already.

I also recall that KPPP would often drop the line in no application 
started using the link immediately.  The way I used to get around that 
is set KPPP to bring up the web browser as soon as it connected.  That 
was a hack I'm afraid but it worked.

These days I'm a lot more knowledgeable about the ppp infrastructure in 
Linux... ;) 

However to continue sensibly I'll need to know what Linux distribution 
you're running.

-- 
Geoff Teale
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