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In <01bb9b09$c3158900$0172b000@abyss> "Bill LaGrue" <locutus@m150.aone.net.au> writes:

>Hi,
>	I am trying to set up Linux to work with PPP so I can dial up my ISP and
>use that rather than Win95.  I have compiled the PPP drivers in the kernal,
>and it says on the boot up screen(s) that SLIP, CSLIP and PPP is there, and
>I have tried using dip, but whenever dip gets the "mode PPP" command, it
>hangs up the modem, and the Terminal Ready light goes out.  My script for
>dip works fine up to that point, it dials, connects, logs in , gets my IP
>address, but hangs up at "mode PPP".  Using dip interactively gets the same
>result-set the port, TR light comes on, do "mode PPP" and the light goes
>out.  pppd just says "Sorry-PPP is not available on this computer".  I have
>read the docs, looked at web sites, looked at books, but cant find an
>answer to this problem.  Any help appreciated.

	One of the peculiaralites of the dip version coming with Slackware 3.0, 
and I assume other distributions also, is that it expects pppd to be in a particular
directory.  I think it's something along the lines of /usr/lib/ppp/pppd.  You should
be able to find it in the docs with an idea of where to look.  Also, my brother was
having a problem with ppp on his computer (not using dip) which gave the same error.
I never quite worked out what it was, but we managed to fix it by getting the latest
ppp and kernel etc and running the patch that comes with ppp.  The script seemed to
be saying that it hadn't actually changed anything, but with a new kernel compiled
it ran without a problem.  <shrug>  One of those things I guess.

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