Re: Potato on laptops

[Greg Woods <gswoods@dimensional.com>]

Dada wrote:
> 
> >Drew Parsons wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way, how many Debian laptop users are on potato and keep up to date
> >> with the latest packages?

> I have tried xisp as somebody suggested here, and I get a message
> ' pppd returned 1!' when I try to dial.
> 
> I have tried kppp and I got the message
> 'pppd is not properly installed!'

This sounds like a permissions problem. Is pppd setuid root? Does the
user as whom you are running xisp have permission to execute pppd?
Alternatively, will xisp work if you run it as root?

--Greg