re Subject: F-11 32-bit dial-up connection

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On 09/21/2009 10:57 AM, Allan Swanepoel wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Phill <phanback at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:phanback at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>     >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?
>
>
> 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.
>
>     Phill
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>

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.
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