On Friday 08 February 2002 04:32 am, Mark Sweeting wrote: > Hi there, > > I have been trying to get a modem working on Linux > 2.4.9. I am able to get it all working on a machine > running 2.2.15, but for some reason it won't work on > the newer version of Linux. > > I have tried with the stable version of ppp and the > newer versions (stable and testing, 2.4.1). > > The interface seems to come up, and I can connect to > my ISP. The local and remote IPs seem to be > configured, and the correct entries are added to > resolve.conf and to the routing table. > > However, I can't ping either the remote IP, the local > ppp0 interface or anything else. >
do ps aux|grep pppd if you don't see a line that describes your ppp dialup connection, then pppd isn't running--for whatever reason. are you absolutely sure that you did install pppd?