Hey, all, I'm running Linux now at home (hope to phase out my DOS partition,
or at least scale it down), but I can't get PPP to work with it.

I have managed to use dip to get a connection, but haven't gotten any
farther.  I also haven't run across any coherent (pardon the pun)
documentation.

Is anyone useing this successfully?  Here's what I've got:

Slackware (zooed) hot off sunsite.unc.edu last week.

Thanx for attention!

6 responses total.

I also just downloaded the latest slackware, and at some point will
want to use PPP, so I'd also be interested in answers (or will
supply them if I figure things out for myself...).

I just posted to the help newsgroup, will forward anything useful to you.

I do know that you have to move a couple files into your linux source
directory, recompile your kernal, and compile pppd.  That's all in /usr/src/*.

Also, there's a new dip version that has ppp support built in.

So it should be plug an play.

Growwwwwllll.

<G>

BTW, will I be notified if responces come in, or do I have to hunt?

(I am using tin, this is my first night of usenet.)

Unless somebody mails the responses to you (it has happened to me before,
I think mostly by people who don't have posting access), you will have to
keep reading the newsgroup to see the responses.  I've never used tin, so I
don't know what it's like, but in trn you can just keep watching for that
thread, so you won't have to hunt too hard.

*Some* people only post if they think it's of general interest.  Admittedly
those people seem to be very few these days.

Tin is a very nice little program.  It will automatically pull all the
threads of an article together for you to read.

Does a lot more, but I am sure that you wil find this out for yourself as
you go along.

Good Luck!

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