[CLUE-Tech] troubles with red hat install

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 04:38, Charles Oriez wrote:
> I installed Red Hat 8.0 on an old Toshiba 480CDT laptop, and experienced a 
> couple of problems.  They are probably simply fixed, but I'm blanking at 
> the moment.  First one is critical.  Others can keep until the installfest.
> 
> 1) KPPP issues
> 
> Whenever I start KPPP under the user login, it asks for the root 
> password.  I want to be able to connect from the user account without root 
> access.

This was covered in June on the Tech list:
http://clue.denver.co.us/pipermail/clue-tech/2003-June/007741.html

> When I dial into my ISP, the connection handshake happens fine.  I'm given 
> a dynamic IPA assignment by my ISP.  When I start gftp, I can communicate 
> with remote servers by IPA, but both gftp and mozilla won't find sites by 
> domain name.  It would appear my dns server connection isn't working.  I 
> have KPPP configured for dynamic IP, default gateway and assigned default 
> route.  DNS is set to auto configuration with domain name blank.  I've 
> tried enabling and disabling dns servers during connection (default is 
> enable).

Perhaps your ISP doesn't assign DNS? Seems unlikely, but it's possible
-- who is your ISP? Can you set them manually? 

Zonker
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