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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