sympatico DSL connection and Mandrake 9.2

[Marcus Brubaker]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:06, David J Patrick wrote:
> OK, so I had said friend issue the above urpmi command; everything 
> already installed.
> adsl-setup went along smoothly, with only one hitch;
> the option to have connection "always on" didn't seem to take. "on 
> demand" was the result every time.
> after adsl-setup Mozilla couldn't connect.
> adsl-start reported "already running"
> adsl-stop claimed to "kill pppd"
> adsl-start again still reported "already running"
> 
> net result; friend (new to computers) can't get at the highspeed 
> connection he's paying for.
>     has seen the command line a few too many times, wonders if linux is 
> really all that cool.
>     his linux geek friend (me) is (am) stumped.
> 
> I'm goung to try;
>     bringing the newest  rp-pppoe-3.5-3mdk.i586.rpm and 
> rp-pppoe-gui-3.5-3mdk.i586.rpm on disk.
>     urpmi-ing those (how do I point to these files? just urpmi 
> /tmp/wherever/whatever.rpm ?)
>     bring a knoppix disk to see if pppoe-config can pull it off.
> 
> suggestions welcomed
>    

Check for stale (pppd) lock files.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure where to
look on a Mandrake box for the lock files.  Maybe /var/lock or /var/run?

Good luck.

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Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>

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