<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 09/21/2009 10:57 AM, Allan Swanepoel wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:2a6c87c50909210857w36332ef8ia08373191bd0fa0@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Phill <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:phanback@yahoo.com">phanback@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Hi! >For seven years I had hoped to get an OS where everything would work >well out of the box, to no avail. When I started installing this F-11 I >got from a magazine DVD, I thought the day had arrived: everything >worked well! Everything, that is, until... > Until, kppp already connected to my ISP, I tried both Firefox and >Thunderbird, and neither would "find the server." > I went to Administration/Network Manager, and it showed my modem, but >would not activate it. Got two error messages: I can't offer any helpful suggestions. I would like to confirm that Fedora 11 isn't fully supporting dial up. Does anyone know for sure? I have several old machines that I would like to use Fedora on but I will need dial-up support as well. Can anyone confirm this, or suggest a current Linux distro that does fully support dial-up connections? </blockquote> <div> Install wvdial and dialup should work, also kppp might need to be run as root, as it needs to modify ip addresses and add routes to the system. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Phill </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> I use KPPP as a non root user. I did have to add "GATEWAYDEV=ppp0" to the file /etc/sysconfig/network and nameservers to the /etc/resolv.conf file. </body> </html>