Re: ppp-on or pon script in Slackware

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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: ppp-on or pon script in Slackware
On Sun February 20 2005 10:13, Nathan England wrote:
> You need to run pppsetup first to get the files in order. Once you run
> that, slackware uses ppp-on and ppp-off to start/stop...


Thanks, Nathan.

I ran pppsetup. When I run modem lights it tries to run pppon, and I still get
the error message:
"Failed to execute child process. No such file or directory.

Is "pppon" what it should run? I think my file is "ppp-on". I changed it in
modem lights but still get the error message. Do I need to put in an entire
path? If I do, I'm confused, because it seems the pon, ppp-on, ppp-go, etc.
files are in all sorts of different places and I don't know which ones to
use.

Siri Amrit
>
> On Sunday 20 February 2005 08:42, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > I want my bouncing cow, darn it, so it looks as if I'll have to switch to
> > Gnome to get it since I can't get it to work in KDE. The problem now is
> > that I can't find a way to connect to the internet in Gnome. I've tried
> > the modem lights applet and it has problems with the ppp-on script.
> >
> > I found the ppp-on script and added the info for telephone number,
> > password, etc. When I click on modem lights to connect I get the error
> > message "Failed to execute child process. No such file or directory.
> >
> > I've never used Gnome, but I used Debian once and liked that I could just
> > type "pon" and poff" to connect and disconnect. I get the impression
> > there are a number of files in /etc/ppp that pon needs that may not be
> > there, and maybe permission issues, too. Is there a way I can do pon and
> > poff in Slackware or else get the modem lights working?
> >
> >
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