| Many KDE users report problems using KPPP. But before you
complain about KPPP, make sure you have already checked the
following: Can you dialup to your ISP without using KPPP? If you cannot, then perhaps KPPP is not the culprit after
all. Have you gone through the KPPP documentation at
least three times and followed its instructions and trouble-shooting
suggestions?
The KPPP documentation can be accessed through the
KDE Help Center.
Last, but not least, the KPPP homepage is at http://ktown.kde.org/~kppp/. Now, if you still encounter problems, here's what might help you
solve them: - How do I change the MTU setting in KPPP?
Open up the KPPP dialog box and select
Setup. Choose an existing account and click
Edit, or New to create a
new dialup account. Select the Dial tab and
click Arguments. Type what you want to change
in the Argument textbox (e.g. mtu 296) and
click Add. When you are satisfied, click
Close. To check whether the options “took”, do one of the following: In a terminal window, run
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 and look
at the reported MTU in the output. It should match your
request. Add debug and kdebug
(each on a separate line) to your
/etc/ppp/options file and restart your
PPP session. You will find debugging messages in
/var/log/messages, including MRU and MTU
settings.
If you want, the MRU and MTU settings can be added to the
options file, one complete setting per line, no
quotes or dashes. - KPPP connects at a slower speed than
normal.
The following might do the trick: Try executing setserial
spd_hi. The default MTU value is 1500,
which maybe too large
for a dialup connection. Try changing it to a smaller value like
296
or 576. Check in your $HOME/.kde/share/config for the
kppprc. Ensure the correct modem speed is
actually defined there.
|
| - How do I page-up or page-down?
Use Shift+Page Up
and Shift+Pg
Dn.
- How do I perform a simple “copy” from Konsole to
anything else?
When I do a ls, first I select with
the mouse the desired text, press
Ctrl+C,
then I make the target application active, point the mouse to the
relevant part and press Ctrl+V.
Alternatively, highlight the text by dragging with the left mouse button down and
paste by clicking with the middle mouse button (or both buttons if you are using a
2 button mouse with 3 button emulation).
- Why can't Konsole find the “9x15” and the 2
“console” bitmap fonts installed with KDE?
FontConfig must find the three fonts
installed in: $KDEDIR/share/fonts.
If
the KDE install does not install these fonts in a directory that
already exists (e.g. /usr/share/fonts) then you must add this
directory to the configuration file /etc/fonts/local.conf. This should be
the first line after “<fontconfig>”. For example:
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/kde3/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
After adding the directory, run (as root):
fc-cache -v and check that
it found the directory.
|
