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01/17/00
Linux
to UTK modem pool?
Q:
I spent most of the weekend installing RedHat 6.1 on one of my old
machines at home. This had to have been one of the most frustrating,
and yet, rewarding weekends in a while.
After spending
hours getting the monitor to work with any of the Linux GUIs, getting
linux to recognize the printer and then the horror of the weekend
- getting it to recognize the modem - I had hit a high spot....it
all worked....until I actually dialed in. I could get the modem
to dial in to the modem pool, the modem pool answered and they handshook
on a baudrate. Then nothing. It was still trying to connect. I'm
assuming that it's looking for more information. I'm using Gnome
Internet Connections utility and I've tried it both with "Let
PPP do all authentication" on and off. I've got all of my login
information typed in correctly. What am I missing?
A:
I'm sorry about your frustrations. Don't give up! I think you will
be rewarded for your troubles.
I don't want
to start a GUI war here, but I used gnome for quite some time, before
returning to KDE. There are probably a bunch of gnome loyalists
on this list. But my
opinion is that KDE is easier to use and is more stable. The PPP
dialup utility, kppp, was very simple to set up with my UTK ERA
account. That's what I use all the time now. However, I have also
had success in the past using the command line utilities to invoke
ppp before running X-Windows.
If you want
to try KDE, Redhat provides an X utility to switch between Gnmome
and KDE. It's called the "Desktop Switching Tool" and
is found under the Redhat System utilities in each respective GUI.
01/17/00
Make
the UT network recognize default ppp variables?
Q:
Now that I've gotten kppp to dial in for me, I'm sortof missing
one thing. I put my ID and password in the setup under their respective
fields in the response script area, but it didn't seem to work.
I was still required to enter them at the terminal along with "ppp
default". Reminds me of the Win3.x days. Is there a way to
make the UT network recognize those variables? I assume using some
scripting?
A:
Hmmm.... Works fine for me, just using the kppp dialog. Here's the
way mine is set up:
First of all,
I don't have anything in the Login ID and Password fields on the
first screen. Connect to: says "UTK", which is what I
named my setup. In the "Account
Setup" there are several tabs. Under Dial, I have the phone
number and Authentication: set to "Script-based," and
I have the "Store password" box checked. I think you know
what to do with IP, DNS, etc.
In the script
tab, I have the following set up...
expect: ername:
send: myPHuserID
expect: assword:
send: myPHpassword
expect: utk.edu>
send: ppp default
This works
reliably for me. Hope it helps.
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