On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:16:36PM +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: > Tried some of the others like wvdial, but it needs to have > root access to work. Ordinary users can use wvdial if pppd is suid root.
#which pppd #chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd (if that is your path) #ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd (check for rwsr-xr-x permissions) > However, it seems to be interfering with the network. Internet works if > I have the network connection down, but not if it is up. For packets to go out the modem put "defaultroute" in the ppp options file. (probably /etc/ppp/options) Kppp can automatically put the "defaultroute" option in /etc/ppp/options every time you use kppp. In kppp setup select your account then "edit account => gateway => => assign default route to this gateway" -- keith.
