Kppp, wvdial & pppconfig

[marc]

Irena & Richard Jenkins said...
> Message to all those members who use dial-up internet:  If one of these tools 
> doesn't behave, try another!  Most installs of (K)(X)ubuntu have them 
> available.  I am not sure why this is so, but I used pppconfig to set up my 
> dial-up after complete failure with wvdial.  It has worked 100% since then.
> 
> On another machine I amplaying with I shall try replacing a 'wobbly' kppp 
> setup with pppconfig too!
> 
> A small bugbear is that you have to run your dialup from within a terminal 
> as 'root' or 'superuser' ... but the commands you need to remember are 
> just 'pon' your connection name and 'poff' your connection name.
> 
> Works for me!  YMMV.

Yup, I've had success with pppconfig when visiting folk who have an ADSL 
modem. wvdial is harder work, ime, so I'd start with pppconfig, but for 
olde worlde dial-up it's the nuts. kppp has never worked for me.

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Cheers,
Marc