Paul Nicholas McCubbins wrote: >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 >> >> >> Starting kppp in xterm is how we see the error. ;(
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