> i'll think you'll find suse has its own dialler, iirc it is called > ktinternet or similar. no doubt volker will pop up soon and tell us.
Yeah I get the hint ;) For distros other than SUSE, kppp is probably the correct answer for controlling the dialling. For setting up the modem it's distro dpendent. For SUSE, you forget that you ever heard anything about kppp, and use kinternet. In any case, configure your modem properly in yast first - dial-on-demand, user name, modem control strings if necessary (several ISPs require the "stupid mode" setting for making a successsful connection (this is a flag which yast sets for wvdial). If you also have ethernet, make sure to tick "replace default route", this ensures that dialup takes priority over ethernet (adsl) when dialled up (eg when adsl is down). The dialling is initiated in any case by smpppd (SUSE meta ppp daemon), which is a daemon collecting system state and user commands. When requested, smpppd starts pppd (which in turn starts wvdial for dealing with the ISP login - none of this chat script cr*p in SUSE since about '99). cinternet is a front-end to smpppd, kinternet likewise for the KDE panel. In terms of functionality, the kinternet/smpppd construction leaves anything else I've seen for stone dead. Clicking on the panel icon starts dialling, clicking again hangs up; no effect for demand-dialling, but kinternet allows to disable demand-dialling altogether (like when you want to make sure not to spend money). Trouble connecting? Right-click on the panel icon, select "show log". None of this: become root (is that edible?), start your favourite editor (what's an editor?), look at /var/log/messages (there's no \var\lg\mssges - what do I do now?). kinternet will also ask for the dialup password if you deliberately didn't configure it in yast. Oh yes, most importantly, kinternet handles any number of modems and ISPs with zero trouble. Remember that kinternet only controls the dial-up, but not the dialling etc, so if your modem / internet connection /etc isn't working properly, the log is the only real use you'll get out of kinternet. The log is however the primary source for trouble-shooting. Run yast to fix things, "configure modem" or similar from somewhere in kinternet. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
