Sorry can't help; but I can add some other findings. I was running Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba TECHRA 8100 notebook using KPPP to dial my ISP (using KINGMAX PCMCIA FAX/MODEM not the winmodem which comes standard). 

Whenever I was connected to internet I could use Netscape; but nothing else. By this I mean that if I tried to get into xterm or click on any desktop icon, it was as though it was being ignored. I could receive email, surf web pages etc within Netscape; but nothing else whilst I was connected. Once I closed the connection, all was well. (Twilight Zone music plays).

Hope this may assist. Ohh, I no longer have the notebook.

Wayne
On Thu, 01 March 2001, Ari Finander wrote:

> 
> Two interesting yet troublesome things have been happening on my RH7.0
> box recently.  First, X doesn't load properly, and has been doing it
> about once a day for the last few days where Linux loads up, the
> virtual terminal is seen, then X starts and freezes just after the
> first grey background and mouse pointer come up...it never makes it to
> the blue background and login window.  Luckilly I just learned about
> ctrl+alt+backspace, so I don't have to press the reset button on my
> case anymore.  Does this usually happen with X?  Coming from Windows,
> I'm somewhat used to things like this...
>     Kppp let me get online using Linux for the first time last night
> after I set the iiNet connect settings to let ppp do all
> authentication and added 'noauth' to my /etc/ppp/options file.  I did
> this from KDE.  I then logged back on in gnome and tried RH PPP
> Dialer, and the same errors as before happened.  I tried to dial in
> with kppp, and it would dial in, connect, then not let me access
> anything and either drop out immediately or stay connected without
> letting me access anything.  I then logged out and then back in the
> KDE, and the same things happened.  Now today, having had the computer
> turned off for about 14 hours, I'm able to connect to the Internet
> with kppp in KDE again, but I'm afraid to go back to gnome (which I
> actually prefer) as last time i tried kppp in gnome it stopped working
> (see above comments).  any thoughts as to what would cause this?
> 
> TIA, 
> 
> 
> Ari
> 
> 
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