Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb Brian Sawert um 17:20: > I'm running FC1 on an old Thinkpad 600. It's been wonderful, even as I've > slugged it out getting the MWave modem and quirky soundcard to work. But > now I think I'm really stuck. > > I'm trying to connect to a Microsoft VPN at work. I think that PPTP is the > way to go, but I lack the basic knowledge for setting it up as a client. > Has anybody done this, or have some ideas of what to try? install the new pppd http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pptpclient/ppp-2.4.2_cvs_20030610-1.i386.rpm install the kernelmodule: if you have an i686 kernel you are lucky, there's are rpms available: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/mppe/kernel-mppe-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.i686.rpm or http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/mppe/kernel-mppe-2.4.22-1.2188.nptlsmp.i686.rpm If you have athlon or a custom kernel download the source http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/poptop/kernelmod-0.7.1.tar.gz?download (or 0.8.0 which is brand new), unpack & change into the new folder $ export CC=gcc32 $ ./kernelmod.sh (You need to have kernelsources installed. You will need them anyway, for the module bsd_comp.o is missing in the fedora kernel (WHY??). So you have turn bsd-compression off or rebuild the module for your kernel, at least that's what I did.) Optional: Download & install http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pptpclient/pptp-php-gtk-20030505-rc1.i386.rpm to configure your pptp connections via System Settings -> More System Settinges -> PPTP Client. Otherwise you will have to set the otions in the config files. For more Info see: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora.phtml Although I write down all this very quickly and it really looks easy, let me say this: I found OpenVPN more easy to setup than any of the Microsoft solutions (pptp or l2tp, I'm working on that right now). > Thanks! > You are welcome. Christoph
