dial up connection

[Timothy White]

Sorry, tried to send from the wrong address last time.

On 1/8/07, Timothy White wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Mark Grieveson <dg135 at torfree.net> wrote:
> > Hello.  Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for xfce?  I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp.
> >
> > I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root.  As a regular user it states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions.  I've checked, and regular users have read permission, with the program being labelled executable.  Does it need write permission?
>
> Check permissions on the modem "device". Probably /dev/modem or
> /dev/ttyS0 for a serial modem.
> Also check the wvdial config file /etc/wvdial.
> Lastly check the members are in the dip group, and that they can read
> /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial
>
> >
> > Anyway, I would still prefer to find a simple, usable graphical program that doesn't rely on kde or gnome.  Installing kppp or gnome-ppp would be an excessively large install, I suspect (the programs themselves aren't large, but with the various dependencies they would have, I'm guessing  the actual install would be quite big).
>
> Gnome-ppp from memory doesn't depend on much. Going to install it on
> my server (which has no X or anything) was only going to pull in the
> following extras.
> libglade2-0 libuniconf4.2 libwvstreams4.2-base libwvstreams4.2-extras
> libxplc0.3.13 wvdial
> A total of 1.3Mb for the lot (Ubuntu Dapper).
> So don't be put off from gnome-ppp. I have my Aunt using it, and it's
> as good (better) as the windows dialer.
>
> Another one to look at is ppxp I think, just from a quick apt-cache search
>
> Tim
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