try starting kppp from a xterm, maybe? You might then see any errors it may be barfing.
John Drew is correct; Debian did include a text-based, menu-driven PPP config tool, at least a few years ago. It was called pppconfig, aptly enough. On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 16:28 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Jon Drews wrote: > > Again, here is the guide for using Kppp: > > > > http://www.wurd.com/instcon_linuxkppp.php > > The problem we've been having with KPPP is right at step one: > > 1) Launch kppp > > We can't. When we click on it from the KDE menu, KPPP never opens > (Is there a log file which records such errors?). When we try kppp > from the command line, we get some error message saying that it > cannot start (don't recall what it is.) An 'apt-get remove' followed > by an 'apt-get install' for kppp didn't resolve the problem. At the > time we were just starting with playing with the modem, so we decided > to put KPPP on the shelf and work with wvdial to get dialing out > working. Now that dialing out works, we're focusing on ppp. > > So, any thoughts on why KPPP won't launch? I'm suspecting it's a > permissions problem, but that's just a guess. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > -- Paul Nicholas McCubbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
