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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 only as root and drops out immediately after connecting. PPP as users and root and will stay connected. Root can initialize a program such as Konqueror and acees the internet. Users cannot initialize any programs. Konq, ftp, Kmail, etc. Get a message like "Host Netscape.com cannot be found"
This whole thing is driving me crazy. My brain is fried. I am missing something very obvious. So near, and yet so far. I will be happy to get either of them working let alone both.
Please put me back on the right track.
Bob S.
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. Re ppp (kppp), I find this piece of software to be suddeny "flacky" under SuSE 8. It sometimes works but more often than not it only wastes the cost of several phone calls with no results. Most of the time after kppp dials and a connection is made to the ISP's modem I get the message "kppp timed out", or similar. By then switching to wvdial I get a proper connection to my ISP. Why this happens I just don't know. (And unfortunately I cannot find the config file where I could increase the timeout period for kppp.) 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. Cheers.