I think I need a mserver / kmasqdialer 101 course !
I ended up having to re-install initscripts and ppp just to be able to dial out again. initscripts got rid of the interface ppp0 not found problem ! while ppp actually got the corrupted route to host sorted out !
I don't think I'll try that again in a hurry !
but thankyou for trying.
I think I'll have to wait for the kpppd dial out daemon to appear :-)
Owen
Buchan Milne wrote:
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Owen Savill wrote:
Hello, Isn't it about time that a single user Linux box could do auto dial up ? I mean if window$ can do it I'm sure Linux can too. I've tried with diald and had very mixed results usually not working at all. I read somewhere that ppp was capable but I have never managed to get it to work ! There was talk, when in X, of kPPP having this option, but that was back in KDE 2 days and it still hasn't materialised ! Moreover, when in X, if you want to click on a link you first have to bring up the dialer and then dial out manually !! Not only is this a pain but it certainly doesn't attract window$ users who have the ability to dial automatically / work off line / cancel the attempt all together from a single dialog.It's not quite as convenient, but offers more features: # urpmi mserver kmasqdialer # service mserver start $ kmasqdialer (change the port number to 224, and set server as localhost). Gnome client now compiles for Gnome2, so gmasqdialer should join these in contribs. But it would be nice if kppp could auto-dial for KDE or something similar. Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE95KTJrJK6UGDSBKcRAolLAKCvWZnswkjUF0haICIdTEHKMFbp6wCgn/ez IslJstEXNAF3ZeL5S5aCSp4= =5HlT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
