Re: Gnome PPP dial-up problems

[Cody Russell <bratsche dfw net>]

If you're using Red Hat Linux, you might check out Red Hat's PPP dialer,
rp3. It's a little more polished than gnome-ppp.

Otherwise, you can still get gnome-ppp working. You need to check and see
if you have a file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets setup. It should contain a line
such as:

username	remote	password

The remote tag can be any identifier you want. It must correspond to the
"Remote Name" entry in gnome-ppp's properties.

Then chmod u+s /sbin/pppd and make sure you have proper access to your
modem device. I think that should work. If not, let me know what
/var/log/messages says.

Cody Russell

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jonathan wrote:

> I'd like to wean myself away from as many kde apps as possible, but
> I find I have to use kppp because the Gnome PPP utility dies as soon as
> I try to dial. I get everything configured and then press connect and
> I get a crashing sound and an error message. Any ideas what could be
> causing this.
> 
> Also, While I use Netscape Mail for most of my email, since it only
> allows one POP mail account, I have to use another utility here agin
> kmail seems to fit the bill best, except when I want to click on link
> and it brings up all the kde icons. I'd like to use Balsa, but that
> doens't seem to be able to send via SMTP. It looks like the option is
> there, but I cannot choose it. Is this just not usable yet?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> PS I had thought that I needed to use the kde CD player, but just now
> the Gnome CD player worked and in fact brought up the CDDB info that the
> kde player seemed unable to.
> 
> 
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