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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