I am a new user of SLAX and I would like to congratulate to the maker of SLAX for a very fast USB boot OS.
I have a DSL PPPOe connection at home which requires username and password. When I use either the CD slax or USB slax I could not configure network to connect to the DSL provider. Please help me...
If you had done only the first two steps ie pppoe-setup and pppoe-start, then try doing the next three steps. Be sure to replace eth0 with your actual port.
If you had done only the first two steps ie pppoe-setup and pppoe-start, then try doing the next three steps. Be sure to replace eth0 with your actual port.
Thank you very much jcsoh...I am now connected to the internet using SLAX..
My concern is using either the cli or gui (Roarin Penguin) is that in /etc/ppp , the username and password is kept is a text viewable format (you can read it with any text editor) . I find this unreasonable from the security point of view. Right now using pppoe -setup method everytime from the command line , I use a script to securely delete the files with the password everytime after I connected.
I can't understand why the file is made a text viewable.
I don't use PPPoE myself but i always thought
this should be a standard feature of any Live
CD/USB release. Perhaps it would be a better
idea to just add KMenu iconized entries for
easy access (and also as a reminder), until
the author decides to fix that flaw...
I have seen this before and had tried it , but extracting it gives a config file. I have no idea how it runs.
There is no knemo menu or sub menu on my system ????
if you have kde3 then K-menu --> controll center --> network monitor
add ppp0 (on lower button called 'new' ) and uncheck 'hide icon when not connected'
It work great! .Now I have an icon that I can right click with the mouse to do:
pppoe-setup
pppoe-stop
pppoe-start
ifconfig eth0 down
pppoe-start (just use the same button)
Can I impose on you a bit more ?
I still need two more steps . If you can gib\ve me the syntax to run it , it will be great. Otherwise I can still run it from the console (making use of bash history).
(a) I need to change subdirectory to /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp , where I save a script name del.sh
This is what I type in a console:
cd /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp
(b) Once I am in /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp , I run the script del.sh.
This is what I type in a console:
./del.sh
I tried putting the following command in the knemo-pppo , but it didn't work"
(a) konsole -e cd /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp--noclose
i think it is possible to directly call script with path try: sh /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh
(if it's a -sh- script)
or (in case of -bash- based script ) bash /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh
or just plain: /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh
*this is in case that del.sh is not dependant of the current working directory
or you may try ,by using comma separation: *it appears this last one is not working :( cd /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/ ; ./del.sh
All three worked:
sh /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh
bash /mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh
/mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh
The last will change the subdirectory , but not run the script.
Thanks again . I had put the simplest (/mnt/sda2/slax612cfg/changes/etc/ppp/del.sh) in the knemo-ppo , and now I can just click the submenu to run the script.
Just incase you are wondering , the script is to delete the config files with my username and password (since they are in human readable form). The disavantage of deleting them is once I disconnect , I need to rerun the pppoe-setup.
