Re: The Loss of my Gnomeppp dialer

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> From: "Peter Cague \(Internet\)" <kiwipete@ihug.co.nz>
> 
> Hi
> 
> I remember having a ppp dialer when I installed my system I think
> it maybe have been in the 5.2 install but I have upgraded to 6.0 and
> it's
> no in my menu anymore,  can somebody please tell me which of the
> Gnome file it would have been in and what the file would be called
> so as I might search and see if it's still on my system or I can
> reinstall
> it.
> 
> I will need help also with giveing use's permission to run it as last
> time
> pppd didn't work on non root users.
> 
> Cheers
> KiwiPete

There's gnome-ppp in the gnome-network package, but I doubt you had
that in the default 5.2 install because I don't think it was out then.

As far as permissions:

chmod a+s /usr/sbin/pppd

and

chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS2

replace ttyS2 with whatever device your modem is hooked up to.

Dave