Trying for 5 years to use linux and still trying but getting ready to throw the towel in as maybe not geeky enough. Hoping to get help with KPPP config and especially with fixing an error made under root. Even after 5 years of slowly learning, I still know very little about linux and Kubuntu. My objective is: surfing the net and emails. That's it. If that can be successfully accomplished, I'll be amazed and happy. (Eventually would like to get printers working under kubuntu but that's for much much later. )
XP/Kubuntu dual boot
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty kernel 2.6.28-14 generic
Internet connection: Tethering Verizon LG cellphone to laptop
Using Kubuntu since 8-10-09
2 days ago Aug 10, after 19 hours of grueling trial & error, I thought KPPP had successfully initiated internet connection. I thought this bc no more error messages, it was in the toolbar as though successfully launched, and the clock was running. That was the best I could achieve. The problem was that Konqueror wouldn't open webpages....I tried maybe 5 times. Also Network Connections indicated a New Wireless Connection (great) but under Last Used--indicated Never (never did get a webpage to open).
So here is where I screwed up: I figured maybe the webpage couldn't open bc I didn't have permission, i.e., I needed to get myself listed in the appropriate group. So I look at the group abbreviations that don't tell me squat most of the time, and I add my username to several groups, among them the "root" group. This appears to have been a huge mistake.
I reconnected KPPP, with the apparently successful configuration, and now can't get anything except error message 19 which just does the same root initiated error whenever I start KPPP.
Log gave me a file name which could be the problem but today when I tried to move the file, was told: No such file or directory. I also created two new folders and attempted to move one into the other and was told the same thing: No such file or directory.
I don't know what I'm doing at all; what I'm doing wrong or right. After searching the internet for ideas, I experiment. So I tried Recovery Mode thinking it might be something like Windows System Restore. That was a mistake as it was nothing like System Restore. Had to use ctrl-alt-del to get out of that. It appears to have caused no damage but who knows...
KPPP Log gave this, which I thought was the source of the problem:
/root/.kde/share/apps/kppp/kppp/pid. The only way I know to get the readout from Kubuntu into XP (what I'm using now) is to copy it to paper and then type it here, except the space probably won't get it on one line so I'm dividing it into 1)the left side and 2)the right side....even though there's no split in the readout.
The left side of the colon is like this:
Aug11 14.47.15 ubuntu pppd [4431]:
Aug11 14.47.18 ubuntu pppd [4431]:
The right side of the colon is this:
pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <-> /dev/tty USB0
PAP authentication failed
Connection terminated.
Exit.
Also tried "noauth" in arguments and that didn't work either.
[note: appears it would have fit on one line, so will do next time]
XP/Kubuntu dual boot
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty kernel 2.6.28-14 generic
Internet connection: Tethering Verizon LG cellphone to laptop
Using Kubuntu since 8-10-09
2 days ago Aug 10, after 19 hours of grueling trial & error, I thought KPPP had successfully initiated internet connection. I thought this bc no more error messages, it was in the toolbar as though successfully launched, and the clock was running. That was the best I could achieve. The problem was that Konqueror wouldn't open webpages....I tried maybe 5 times. Also Network Connections indicated a New Wireless Connection (great) but under Last Used--indicated Never (never did get a webpage to open).
So here is where I screwed up: I figured maybe the webpage couldn't open bc I didn't have permission, i.e., I needed to get myself listed in the appropriate group. So I look at the group abbreviations that don't tell me squat most of the time, and I add my username to several groups, among them the "root" group. This appears to have been a huge mistake.
I reconnected KPPP, with the apparently successful configuration, and now can't get anything except error message 19 which just does the same root initiated error whenever I start KPPP.
Log gave me a file name which could be the problem but today when I tried to move the file, was told: No such file or directory. I also created two new folders and attempted to move one into the other and was told the same thing: No such file or directory.
I don't know what I'm doing at all; what I'm doing wrong or right. After searching the internet for ideas, I experiment. So I tried Recovery Mode thinking it might be something like Windows System Restore. That was a mistake as it was nothing like System Restore. Had to use ctrl-alt-del to get out of that. It appears to have caused no damage but who knows...
KPPP Log gave this, which I thought was the source of the problem:
/root/.kde/share/apps/kppp/kppp/pid. The only way I know to get the readout from Kubuntu into XP (what I'm using now) is to copy it to paper and then type it here, except the space probably won't get it on one line so I'm dividing it into 1)the left side and 2)the right side....even though there's no split in the readout.
The left side of the colon is like this:
Aug11 14.47.15 ubuntu pppd [4431]:
Aug11 14.47.18 ubuntu pppd [4431]:
The right side of the colon is this:
pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <-> /dev/tty USB0
PAP authentication failed
Connection terminated.
Exit.
Also tried "noauth" in arguments and that didn't work either.
[note: appears it would have fit on one line, so will do next time]
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