On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, MJ Ray wrote:

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Yes this is part of what I wanted. BUT the main problem is to get it (Mandrake 10.1) to work at all. I used wvdial to connect to the ISP thus:

Sorry, I can't help with that. It didn't look like it's connecting, unless your have a very fast ISP. 3 seconds? I think it should even log the dial attempt and it looks like it's not even attempting. Is the modem on COM1?

I used ppp-config in debian to set up my dialup connection when I first installed it and have copied or edited the files from /etc/ppp pretty much ever since. Then it's just a case of getting the correct permissions on files in /etc/ppp/ (readable by users, writeable only by root) and on /usr/bin/pppd (owner root, permissions start -rws). Finally, either "pon" or "pppd call provider" (to use details from /etc/ppp/peers/provider)

It appears (from the log) that pppd is attempting to negotiate compression with the server, which it won't accept. I will attempt to stop this when I have the time.

I already use Linux to send e-mails, and use the same hardware (grub dual boot), so most things are correct. This distro is RedHat 9, and I am attempting to configure Mandrake 10.1.

Many thanks.

Leon.