Clinton Roane on Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:50:21 -0500


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RE: [PLUG] Re: Help


I'm replying to this because you were most helpful with your suggestions.  I
tried the perl script again and it worked.  However I get a connection and
then it hands up.  Is there away to log what the remote system is doing?
This is a step in getting my AT&T connection with Linux running.  I've been
playing with this for 3 weeks now.  Again, this is obviously a step, just a
matter of tweaking I suppose.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=One other problem perhaps you can help with

I have access to CCIL (Chester County Interlink) which is a free internet
access service for people who love and/or work in Chester County.  They
don't support it yet (meaning they really can't give any help at this time
but they are working on it).  It is Linux frendly however, I can connect
thru kppp but once I connect I can't get netscape to work?  It says it can't
find whatever webpage I type in or it doesn't go to the home page (which is
Redhat).  What am I doing wrong?  They use PAP unlike AT&T which uses CHAP.
Again any help would be appreciated.
thanks, Clinton

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Beldon
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:49 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re: Help


On Thursday 15 February 2001 20:19, you wrote:
> Sadly I did try WURD, but the perl script did not work.  That is also were
I
> got the information on how to (or that I needed to) edit my chap-secrets
> file.  I don't know if the perl script is old or outdated, but when I
tried
> to run the script perl wouldn't compile due to a lot of errors in the
> script.  Oh, I also tried emailing the author of the help article on WURD
> but got a returned email that the address was unknown.  Linux magazines
> often give a simple walk-thru on setting up kppp but don't explain that
you
> may have to edit a ppp options file or a CHAP/PAP-secrets file.  And I do
> use Kppp.  AT&T is a good service but I am about to give up on them
because
> what good is a linux box if you can't connect to the internet.
>
> Thanks for the reply, Clint
>

What kind of errors were you getting in the Perl script?  I had originally
cut and pasted it from a Windows machine and copied it to my Linux box.  The
trouble was that Windows adds invisible characters to the ends of the lines,
causing lots of "file not found" type errors.  I had to load the script into
pico, save it, the run it (which had the effect of stripping out the extra
invisible LF characters at the ends of all the lines.

If you are not copying and pasting the Perl script from windows, then there
is another potential problem.  The script has some forward and backward
single-quotes which look nearly identical and are hard to discern from
Netscape (especially using the default fonts RH sets up for you).  You might
want to look that up.

There's basically no reason that the Perl script should have errors in it.
Perl hasn't changed its basic functionality that much since RH6.2 (which is
what I used the script on).

--
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GIT/MU/CS/PA d s:++ a C++ UA$ P+++ L++>++++ E W++ N++ o-- K w--- O- M+ V--
PS+
PE Y+ PGP+ t+ 5-- X- R* !tv b++ DI++ D+ G++ e+ h--- r+++ y++++
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-------
For translation:  http://www.kluge.net/ungeek.html


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