pppd daemon not installed error

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I am using a Pentium II 300 MMX machine, Mandrake 7.02 and a ISA US Robotics modem set to COM 3 IRQ 5. While in KDE or Gnome, I get the "cannot find ppp, make sure the pppd daemon is installed" error when trying to dial out using KPPP. I have tried reinstalling twice, that didn't do the trick. How can I install the pppd daemon?

I am a newbie to Linux so be kind.

Thanks for your help in advance,
C

 

[mbaranski]

Maybe you're not running it as root? Or, maybe it's not in your path? Those are the most obvious things to check. On my machine, kppp won't let you run it without at least the root password, and I'd check that the /path/to/kpppd is in root's $PATH. you can do this by typing

echo $PATH

at a prompt, and it will list the path (if you're using bash)

to set the path, do this (if you're using bash)
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/pppd
and see if that helps.

it's probably in /usr/sbin or /sbin or something like that... to find it , you can do

find / | grep pppd | grep bin

This should help locate the pppd binary

 

[chenn]

Another way to locate its existence might be:
rpm -qi ppp (a package containing e.g. pppd) or locate pppd.
However, the pppd must be shipped with your distribution.


regards
chenn

 

[Guest_imported]

I tried what mbaranski suggested, and found nothing, I will try what you suggested chenn. I would think that it would be in the distro, it is Mandrake 7.2

Thanks again,
CCoffin

 

[mbaranski]

Why not d/l it and install it seperately? Most can be found in the package format, and you can probably find a good pppd that is easy to install. Even if yo uhave to build one, it's not usually too hard to build software.

Good Luck!
As always, I hope that helped!

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