There are a couple of other issues besides kppprc I enountered while
setting up Kppp for a friend this afternoon. Up until now the only
problem I had was /usr/sbin/pppd having its permissions changed each
time I ran YaST. I always have to "chmod a+sx pppd" after each YaST or
Kppp won't fire pppd. Today, I encounted a situation where a user can
dial the ISP but Kppp fails to bring up pppd, even though pppd is a+sx.
Log to root and Kppp fires pppd fine and a connection to the ISP is
established and browsing is successful. I know it is a question of
permissions, but I can't figure out where. I follow the permissions all
the way back to /dev/ttyS1 and they are the same as those on my machine,
which has been using Kppp daily since last August, staying online as
long as 15-20 hours on some days. (I use a 250 hr/month service).
So, for a user, the permission settings of each file involved in the ISP
connection should be established and published along with the kppprc
settings.
A third issue I encountered concerned modem intialization strings. I
couldn't get that friend's modem to even make a connection until I
downloaded wvdial, compiled it and ran it. It gave me a set if
intialization parameters which I added to the modem int string textbox
in Kppp. Then the Hayes 336 began making a good connection to the ISP
and root could fire the pppd and browsing could begin.
So, there is more than just the kppprc issue here. There are still too
many potholes on the road to browse the WWW.
Jerry
Owen Synge wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We plan to publish on the web an archive of kppp configuration settings
> for all ISPs in the UK. The eventual aim is to give easy to follow
> instructions to enable kde users, no matter how inexperienced, to
> connect to their ISP as simply and easily as possible. Our first
> attempt is at:
>
> http://www.kppp-archive.freeserve.co.uk
>
> How can you help?
>
> It won't take you a minute! If you have a reliable connection to your
> ISP using kppp please send us you kppprc file. The definition of
> reliable is:
> make sure you have connected at least 10 times in a row with no
> unexpected deaths
> of daemons!
>
> What is it? kppprc is the configuration file for kppp. There is one for
> each user.
>
> Where is it? /home/your_login_id_here/.kde/share/config/kppprc
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