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[roberto@xxxxxxxxx (Aaron Seelye)]

Sandy wrote:

> I've found WvDial to be my answer to dialing up our ISP. My wife could
> care less how it is that she gets her email, just so long as she does. I
> ran KDE up thru v1.0, and then discovered XFce x-window manager and
> haven't looked back since. KDE is gone, and with it the GUI dialer.
>
> WvDial probes (my word) you modem to identify it, and set an optimized
> string in its config file. In XFce I have a "dial-up" icon/button which
> simply calls "wvdial". I made a second one that calls: "killall wvdial".
> With these two buttons either of us can dial up from our respective
> logged in desktops, do our net thing, and shut down the dialer. No one
> ever sees any of the dialup action.
>
> You can find WvDial at:  <A HREF="http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/";><A HREF="http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/</A">http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/</A</A>>  You will
> also find the co-author Avery P. to be extremely helpful should you
> encounter any problems.
>
> The only tweaking I had to do was change the permissions on ttyS0 to
> "users" to allow each of us to dial out instead of just root.
>
> HTH
>
> sandy
>
> --
> Sandy Seeds
> 100% Microsoft Free
> S.u.S.E. Linux!

  It was rather easy to set up, but it appears to have the same problem.  here
is an output of what i get at the console:

------------------------------------------------------------
aaron@host:/usr/local/bin > ./wvdial
--> WvDial: internet dialer version 0.41
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT 7354152
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT 7354152
CONNECT 52000/ARQ/x2/LAPM/V42BIS
--> Carrier detected.  Waiting for prompt.
login:
--> Looks like a login prompt.
--> Sending: roberto
roberto
Password:
--> Looks like a password prompt.
--> Sending: (password)
~[ff]}#[c0]!}!}!} }8}!}$}%[dc]}"}&} } } } }%}&&[7f][a7]8}'}"}(}"}%[be]~
--> PPP negotiation detected.
--> Warning: can't modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
--> Starting pppd at Mon Aug 10 18:13:55 1998
--> PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 1)
--> Disconnecting at Mon Aug 10 18:13:56 1998
-------------------------------------------------------------------

I looked at /var/log/messages, and found something rather interesting:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Aug 10 18:10:15 host pppd[16423]: pppd 2.2.0 started by aaron, uid 500
Aug 10 18:10:15 host pppd[16423]: Failed to open /dev/cua0: Device or resource
busy
Aug 10 18:10:15 host pppd[16423]: Exit.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

the ----------'s denote beginning and ending of file.  Do i need to upgrade
pppd to 2.3.5?  If not, what can I do?

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