PPP Hangs on System Boot

Shinjuku · 04-03-2003, 12:03 PM

Hi there, I have a real pain in the backside of a problem. Basically, I've installed Redhat 8 on my laptop and I use a Lucent Winmodem to connect to the net (the internal one). When tinkering with the dialup connection settings I noticed that I could set the computer to dialup during the boot process so the connection would be available at login. "Great!" I thought. So, next reboot, the system gets as far as trying to initialise the connection, then waits, then waits, then waits and waits...

Basically, I believe the problem is that the modem needs something to work that isn't loaded till later in the boot process. I can't even get any kind of command prompt to try and remedy this. Fortunately I have another computer also with Redhat on it. Does anyone know of some way to fix this? Or is there perhaps a disk image I can write to a floppy and boot up with that, mount the filesystem and edit a config file?

Pcghost · 04-03-2003, 12:27 PM

I have had major problems using the network device configurator to manage modem connections in RH. I suggest using kppp to do dial-up management and just set kppp to start each time you log in...

Shinjuku · 04-03-2003, 12:39 PM

Thing is, I don't even get that far. At all. Dialup works fine when I'm in Linux, though I can't get in since it hangs trying to dial during boot.

Avatar33 · 05-23-2003, 04:57 PM

I have the same problem. On boot up it says: Bringing up interface PPP1" and then hangs. I am using Redhat 8 too and on boot I see the line "Press i for interactive startup". Using this option I can skip bringing up the ppp1 interface. But I still don't know how to disable the option permanently.

Please help.. and thanks a lot

Franklin · 05-23-2003, 10:41 PM

It's been awhile since I used RH8 but I had the same problem once.

As far as hanging on boot at initializing ppp, just wait (for awhile) and eventually it gives up and gives a failed message and continues the boot process.

To change the option you have to go to the network configuration GUI and select ppp0, then edit and the option to shut this off is in there somewhere. I believe you can type "neat" at the commant prompt to start the GUI interface for this.

Sorry i can't be more specific, but I don't use RH anymore.

HTH