I asked this question sometime ago and was advised that if I was using x-screensaver or apache that these could conflict with this type of connection. I basically gave up on it and made kppp work..if ya get gnome ppp to work I'd love to know how you did it :-)
Lee > I haven't used gnome ppp before (I use kppp), but I was forced to not > install kde on a system because the machine has 3 small hd's, the largest > is 600M and the other 2 are around 200M or less. So, since the smaller > footprint is Gnome, and since the Gnome panel works with Xfce (my favorite > small footprint gui), I decided to install it. Setting up the dial-up has > been problematic because I'm not familiar with the interface. As far as I > can see the setup is correct, however it appears that I have a permissions > problem. This problem is not confined to the one Gnome-only system, > however--the same error occurs when I attempt to use gnome ppp instead of a > working kppp dial-up on other machines. Anyway, I hit the "connect" button > on gnome ppp and immediately a crash message appears that the "pppd daemon > died unexpectedly". My log files show only that "pppd 2.4.0 started by > eryl, uid 501" followed by "failed to open /dev/modem: Permission denied", > followed by "Exit". The error message is identical on both the Gnome-only > machine and the machines with a working kppp. > Can some Gnome guru out there (I know you're on this list) PLEASE tell be > what I have misconfigured, and why it's only a misconfiguration with Gnome > ppp. > > Thanks, > > eryl
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