Naresh Reddy on Sun, 30 Dec 2001 02:20:13 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] ppp trouble


Yes, ppp0 is created on the fly. I never did like to use KDE's KPPP, check
out "wvdial". Usually you won't get problems like this. BTW, did PPP work
for you before, and make sure you have a compatable modem :-)

Goodluck,
Naresh


On 29 Dec 2001, Michael Leone wrote:

> On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 13:39, John Lavin wrote:
> > Happy New Year all -
> >
> > I'm running into trouble using kppp.  Sometimes I get all of the below
> > messages immediately, other times I get up to the Couldn't find interface
> > ppp0 and stay connected for a time (like now) before eventually receiving the
> > rest of the messages.
> >
> > Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
> > Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> > Kernel supports ppp alright.
> > Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> > Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> > kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
> > kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
> > KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1
> > kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
> > kdeinit: Exit.
> >
> > I'm running KDE 2.1.1 on Mandrake 8.0 and a 2.4.3 kernel.
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/ppp0
> > ls: /dev/ppp0: No such file or directory
>
> It's been so long since I did dialup, but isn't the ppp0 devices created
> on-the-fly? It only appears AFTER you've made a successful connection?
>
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