Nils Philippsen wrote:
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 15:32, Paul Ryan wrote:Be careful about giving out incorrect information.
Hi I have a problem accessing the internet. I can only access it
as root. After numerous attempts to get my ADSL runing with the
Internet setup wizzard and the network device control, without any
luck. The system would conect but it was like Mozilla, Gaim and Co.
didn't know that I was conected. I finnaly had luck with adsl-config,
everything worked as root but only as root. When I boot to a normal
user there is no ppp0 conection listed in the network control (and yes
I did enable other users) when I use /usr/sbin/adsl-start it seems to
conect no error messages but it is the same as with the internet
conection wizzard Mozilla and Co. don't think that I'm conected. One
other note if I do any configuation with the network control I have to
reconfigure my ppp0 conection with adsl-config again otherwise it
won't conect to the internet again.
Hmm, can you list the configuration files for us? ("ls -l /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts")
You also shouldn't need to use adsl-start directly, just "ifup ppp0" or "ifdown ppp0" or the network control program. Also, please give us the contents of the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 without the "USER='...'" line.
Normally you would configure all networking stuff through
redhat-config-network (which will be renamed to system-config-network in
FC2), not through adsl-config.
'adsl-config' is needed once to initialize and save the adsl settings. After that you only use 'ifup ppp0' and 'ifdown ppp0' to connect/disconnect.
When using adsl you should never use the redhat-config-network tool to reconfigure the adapter used for the adsl connection. If you do it breaks the adsl setup.
To address the issue with nothing seeming to work as a non-root user.
1. check /etc/resolv.conf and confirm that nameservers are listed. This is rewritten each time you connect via adsl.
2. When you used adsl-config did you tell the system this would be the default route?
3. Is there a default route listed in any of the files /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files ?? If there is you will have a conflict in routing and it won't work properly. Linux only allows one default route.
4. To check you have a correct default routing run the command 'netstat -r' after connecting via the adsl using 'ifup ppp0'. There should be one or more lines per adapter, and only one line with a UG flag. That one should point to the adapter connected to the adsl link.
If you are intending to be connected continuously it is easy to put the command to start the adsl connection in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or /etc/rc.local). This will start it as root and then everyone can use it.
If you only use it sometimes, simply log in as your regular user. then open a terminal window and you can use a variety of ways to start the adsl connection from the command line, 'sudo' and 'su' are commands that will help. After connection any user on the system will have access (including yourself in the X environment you are already in.
