On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:10:26 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > in - and I've installed SuSE 9.3 on it. (A bit of a change for me - I've > > been > > using Mandrake up to now - but a trip from the Seine to the Elbe shouldn't > > be > > that far! ;) > > Not sure whether Mandrake is developed at the Seine, but SuSE has never > been near the Elbe ;) However, kudos for getting the rivers through the > respective capitals right. > > > I tried using kinternet, and it did everything except talk to the modem. I > > don't know why - I went through all the steps it expected, to set it up. > > With SUSE, forget about kppp no matter what. kinternet is vastly > superior. Should you in some instances have more luck with kppp, then > that is purely a question of ppp options being used. Find out the > correct ones, and configure them with kinternet (no I don't know off the > top of my head how to do this). > > Right-click on the KDE panel plug icon, select view log. This gives you > the pppd daemon log in real-time. If you can't get network connectivity, > this contains all you need to know tp debug the problem. In a crunch, > put pppd into verbose mode (see above, off the top of head). Getting > pppd to go with kinternet is well worth the trouble. > > Once kinternet/wvdial/pppd are running properly, chances of network > trouble are basically silch. Ok if you misconfigure your gateway > interface, too bad (with ppp, it's specified by the ISP!). > > I went to some trouble to get the common NZ ISPs into SuSE. Select > yours, and check the wvdial "stupid mode". Most of the NZ ISP don't seem > to need it, but when it's necessary to go "stupid", you'll get a > connection failure without, so always try it out. > > > So what are the incantations, etc, that I need to get those apps talking to > > the > > ISP server? > > A functional internet connection, nothing else. > > Volker
Haven't used a modem in SuSE for a while, but does it suffer the problem that if you have an existing default route (say via eth0) then it doesn't set a default route via ppp0 when the modem connects? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
