Re: Kppp inactive

[peter colton <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 15:47, Kent West wrote:
> handyman wrote:
> >"Kent West" <westk@acu.edu> wrote
> >
> >>handyman wrote:
> >>>  The problem is: when I click on KPPP in the KDE menu, nothing happens.
> >>>I have tried a number of work-arounds but I still can't dial up.

To set up your the pc box to use kppp in kde for a dailup connection you will 
need the edit the file /etc/ppp/options  and replace auth with noauth
You will all so need to add the user that use the dailup connection to the dip 
and dialout groups.
As su in a console and use the command adduser

adduser username dip
adduser username dialout

All so if the box as a ethernet card installed you will need to set up the 
system for a static ip address for the ethernet card. The static setup needs 
no gateway ip and no dns ip addresses. If you miss this setup on the install 
just install apt-get install etherconf and configure. If you need to run 
etherconf again use the command as su dpkg-reconfigure etherconf

                   all the best peter