Hi,
I am having some difficulty establishing a PPP type connection from my
laptop computer. Running RH6.1 on an Acer Extensa 393C Laptop, using a
3Com 3C562D PCMCIA combo card. The system has lots of disk space, and is
currently configured with 48MB Ram. I am able to use the 10BaseT portion
of the card to connect to the LAN (my home network or otherwise) and using
WinBlows, I can establish PPP connections to my ISP. Now for my problem:
I want to be able to setup the laptop to act as a NAT server for a remote
classroom that I am setting up in a week or so. I have not tried to get
PPP working with the laptop before, so have no idea if Linux can do it or
not. I do know that Win98 can do the connection, but I am not impressed
with the "MS" solution.
I have tried several ways of connecting out and in all cases the error I
get back is not helping me solve my problem:
From netcfg, I setup a PPP interface, and then try to activate it, and get
a message stating:
"Failed to activate the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0"
From kppp, I tried to make a connection, went through the most obvious
settings, and selected what I thought were the right switches, and when I
tried to connect (watching the log window), I see the modem getting the
dialing commands, I see the connection message come back, and then
immediately I get a message about the "ppp daemon died
unexpectantly". Looking at the details, the log file shows that "The
remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any
secret (password) which would let it use an IP address."
This, of course led me to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file, and after reading
the FAQ and the HOWTO, I think that I have it correctly configured, but
alas, I still get the same errors.
The next step I took, was to try a manual connection, using minicom. I
dialed the number, entered my name and password, and saw the "PPP Info"
coming back from the other end. At this point, I tried to again start the
ppp daemon, and found that it still gave me the "authentication" error from
the log file and it caused the connection to drop out.
At this point, I know that the ISP is working, and that I am using the
right names and passwords, it's just something is not working the way I
want it to in Linux. Arggggghhhhh.
Does anybody have any insight into this type of problem? Any help would be
much appreciated.
Thanks
Pete
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