Hi John, I personally don't use dial-up for a long time, so my responses probably won't be 100% accurate. But hope it helps.
1) Unfortunately network-admin is broken for dial-up connections, which is bad. 2) IIRC pppd should be sudo'ed root: # chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd This should make dialing available for non-root users. If it doesn't happen, try chmod +s `which wvdial` 3) Dial-up connections doesn't overwrite /etc/resolv.conf, which is waaaaay bad. Try erasing the existant /etc/resolv.conf and dial to the net again. Anyway, we really need to improve our dial-up support... :/ On 3/1/06, John Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not new to linux. I have had a lot of difficulty setting up ppp > in foresight. Several other distros work well at least with regards to > ppp. I have an external multitech modem that is recognized located at > /dev/ttyS0 (I 've tried every combination of permissions possible on > that file) In foresight 0.9.4.pre.1 as well as 0.9.3 I cannot get a > connection to/thru my isp. I have set up wvdial using the wvdialconf > command. I've edited the wvdial.conf that's created by that command to > include phone#, username, and password. As root I can dial out but do > not get a connection. Firefox browser just states it can't find the > server. I've looked at and disabled firewall. More importantly I've > tried changing permissions on everything in /etc/ppp and checked the > permissions on /usr/sbin/wvdial and /usr/sbin/pppd. > After all that I still get: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ wvdial copper.net > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Device or resource busy > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Device or resource busy > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Device or resource busy > > I also found that in the 0.9.4pre release network-admin crashes when > trying to save settings (see below) > > "The Application network-admin has quit unexpectedly" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ network-admin > > ** CRITICAL **: gst_xml_element_destroy: assertion `node != NULL' failed > aborting... > Killed > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > If anyone has help on this I'm grateful because I'm at a dead end. > -- Cesar cesar-at-zyakannazio-dot-eti-dot-br http://www.zyakannazio.eti.br (page) http://www.cesarcardoso.tk (blog) "O Trópico de Câncer separa o Hemisfério Norte do Hemisfério Sul" (Galvão Bueno) _______________________________________________ Desktop-distro mailing list [email protected] http://lists.bizrace.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-distro
