On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 20:56, Keith Powell wrote: > On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, John McQuillen wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 02:30, Keith Powell wrote: > > > I have been investigating the Gnome desktop, and have been trying to get > > > the Modem Lights applet working to use it for dial-up. I can't get it to > > > work. When I click on it, nothing happens. > > > > > > It gives "pppon" (without the speech marks) as the connect command. I > > > assume that "pppon" is a script, but it doesn't appear to installed > > > anywhere. Trying to run "pppon" from a command line doesn't work either. > > > > > > How do I get Modem Lights to work, please? > > > > > > I can't find a help file for it anywhere. > > > > Try '/sbin/ifup ppp0' and '/sbin/ifdown ppp0' for disconnect. > >
> I still can't get it to work: I must be doing something very wrong. > > In the "connect" command box I have tried the following: > > ifup ppp0 > /sbin/ifup ppp0 > cd /sbin/ifup ppp0 > > I then changed the ifup permissions to 'me' as user and 'users' as group and > repeated the above. Although as 'others' could run the script, it should have > run without changing permissions. > > I then copied the ifup and ifdown scripts into the /etc/ppp folder and tried > again. Again Modem Lights asked me if I wanted to connect and then just > remained blank. > > The only way I can connect with ifup (and disconnect with ifdown) is to enter > > cd /sbin and then run ifup ppp0 (or ifdown ppp0) > > in a terminal. > > Sorry to bother you further, but have you any more advice, please? I don't > know what else to try. > You will have to allow normal users to run pppd. As Root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 Set USERCTL="yes" Cross your fingers and try again with /sbin/ifup ppp0 in the Modem Lights connect box. I hope that works for you. Regards, John...
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