On Thursday 16 May 2002 17.10, Roy Leembruggen wrote:
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.
I think they are. So far I've only found one bug in it. For most people it should be ok.
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 !
This is so so :) If you have an ISP account that gives you a unix style login prompt it fails, as I've noted before, but putting STUPIDMODE = "yes" in the config file under /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/ should work for most people (not all, but most).
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.
YaST2 sets up kinternet/smpppd. It does not set up kppp or wvdial (smpppd uses wvdial, but not /etc/wvdial.conf)
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!
No, this is wrong. What you should do is place the user that is allowed to use the modem in the "dialout" group.
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
. But if you just ignore the message you can go ahead and configure your ISP dial-up one more time!
You should configure kppp (if that's the program you want to use) as the user that's going to dial out. If that user is in the dialout group it should work. regards Anders -- I swear I do declare - how did you get that there?