The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection.
Bob On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: > > Problem - dselect refuses to connect by ftp to sites. To be more precise, > > Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org ... > FTP ERROR -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
