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ppp with linux

8:35 Monday 15 June 1998

Last night at midnight I shut down windows 95 after getting help from my friend Ned on Linux. I had been unable to get ppp to work. He told me to try the Networking icon in the control panel in Linux once I start XWindows.

I did that and still had no luck.

With a little poking around I found that I had to be logged in as root for that to work; otherwise I got a bunch of zombied processes. Hmmmm

With a bit more poking and lots of reading SAMS Teach Yerself Linux in 24 Hours I found how to run a script called ppp-on that would dial the modem and connect.

I had to shutdown and reboot Win95 to find the phone number to call my ISP, so I did that and rebooted into Linux. I editted the script and updated the resolv.conf file so it knew the IP address of the primary and secondary DNS..

After a few tries, I realized I had forgotten to chmod the scripts to make them executable. Then *bing* it worked! It was 1:00am.

I downloaded using Lynx the 3.2 meg Mosaic file and I could not find it on my system.. I have no idea where it went.
So I went to bed around 1:35.

7am *bing* I woke up and wrote down my dream and decided I'll do laundry tomorrow instead of today (I promise!) and hopped back onto Linux.

I used ftp instead of lynx to ftp the Mosaic browser to my machine and this time it was there. (I tested with a small file first)

un gzipped Mosaic and ran it and wow! it worked and I felt the thrill of victory!

Even more thrilling, I went to my homepage and the browser crashed and the terminal congratulated me with the message

Congratulations, you have found a bug in
NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on Linux.

If a core file was generated in your directory,
please do one of the following:

  % dbx /path/to/Mosaic /path/to/core
  dbx> where

OR

  % gdb /path/to/Mosaic /path/to/core
  gdb> where

Mail the results, and a description of what you were doing at the time,
(include any URLs involved!) to mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

We thank you for your support.

...exiting NCSA Mosaic now.

I did as it asked (I hope emacs mailed it correctly; I think so because the modem blinked when I sent it).

I tried again to connect to my site and it worked! And here I am writing a happy successful journal entry from my Linux box.