Hi everybody,
These comments are just to illustrate how linux can be extremely annoying if
you are in a hurry.
The various methods provided in the SuSE 8.0 distro for configuring dial-up to
an ISP are apparently not well integrated.
To start with, during installation one is presented with the Yast2 module for
configuration of ISP dial-up - having finished this, one would assume that
the little Kinternet icon that appears on the taskbar would just need
clicking for a successful connection, either from 'root' or 'user', but this
is not so. You better not put away your ISP DATA file yet !
The only thing that Yast2 shares in common with Kppp, Kinternet, and Wvdial
seems to be the phone number for your ISP dial-up. User name and password
somehow trip you up.
Moreover Wvdial can only be configured as 'root', and the configuration file
ownership and rw permissions are only for 'root', so if you subsequently
login as 'user' and try to dial-up using Wvdial you get rebuffed with a
message that you have no permission! Then you have to change the ownership
and rw group permissions to get round this. Having got this done, you're
STILL not finished!
Similiarly, if you configure kppp when logged in as 'root', and then dial-up
when logged in as 'user' you get a message asking you to contact your 'system
administrator' (yourself ! ) for setting up