R. Stia wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
R. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSe people
New install of SuSE 8.0 Previously ran 7.0 & 7.2 successfully with this modem.
Had to configure my 3Com/USRobotics 56K internal modem manually because Yast2 would not do it. I finally have the modem connecting to my ISP. WVdial works only as root and drops out immediately after connecting. PPP works as users and root and will stay connected. Root can initialize a program such as Konqueror and access the internet. Users cannot initialize any programs. Konq, ftp, Kmail, etc. Get a message like "Host Netscape.com cannot be found" ......<snip>.......
In SuSE 8 when you enter the details for the modem and ISP during the installation procedure these details are NOT entered into wvdial.conf file in /etc. If you want wvdial to work then you have to (as root) edit this file and enter the details. Once you do this wvdial will work for you as a user.
Basil, Yes, that is true except it will not work. Edited wvdial.conf by hand & entered all necessary parameters. As root it will connect, but then immediately disconnects.
Some confusion here perhaps. I did say that you have to edit it as root but then it will work for you as user. I can assure you that it does work when I use it to logon to my ISP as a user (and not as root). If you are trying to use it as root and get disconnected immediately after donncdt, it sounds like the authentication process fails and you get dropped.
Re ppp (kppp), I find this piece of software to be suddeny "flacky" under SuSE 8. ........<snip>.........(And unfortunately I cannot find the config file where I could increase the timeout period for kppp.)
Perhaps I can help you here. Go to /etc/ppp/options.....last line "idle" change it to what you want.
Ah now, that's interesting. Many thanks for this information, I'll now go and look at this setting.
Now, from your comment it seems that you are using Netscape. Again, for some reason in SuSE 8 one cannot start up the webbrowser and then call the ISP -- one has to do the reverse for the browser to work: connect first and then fire up the browser (I use Mozilla) otherwise you will get the message you are getting.
Thanks for the advice. Don't use Netscape. But it happens with every program, Kmail, FTP program, Konqueror or any other. Doesn't matter if I dial up first or last when loading a program. Happens under either condition.
Hmm. Start from the beginning and carefully check the settings for your modem and the details for your ISP connection. Look for typos and expecially that your password has the correct caps/lower case (if used) in the correct places. I hae Win4Lin installed and couldn't properly access one of my Windows partitions; took me close to 3 hours to find the reason for this problem which was caused by a simple typo in fstab :-(. Cheers.