Along with several other distros I have zen installed to my home-assembled sempron.
Zen has been discontinued I think that's too bad until I remember the craziness of figuring out various ppp problems.
I'm on a dialup external multitech modem actually I can connect because I'm typing this from zen now. But (big but) whenever I open kppp I get this message:
pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by executing the following command as root: ^Imknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
Ok I do as it says-well actually I leave those 1st two symbols off and do [CODE][mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 /CODE] because the command it calls for isn't recognized. or I get this [QUOTE][bash: :s^Imknod /dev/ppp c 108 0: substitution failed/QUOTE]
I did a search on this error and the code therein and found this at a debian thread somewhere
Code:
touch @ppp,c,108 0
The problem with any of the fixes is that it only last for that login when I login again I have to enter a terminal and do the mknod command all over again ( Yes I am entering the commands as root ) I made a shell script with the mknod line in it and put it in /etc/init.d and make a symbolic link to it in /etc/rc0.d but it didn't change the fact that I still have to open a terminal, become root and enter the damn mknod command. Any good ideas on this out there?