Kppp cannot be launched

[O. Sinclair]

On 05/05/12 11:18, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2012 08:14 Georgi Kourtev wrote:
>> На 05.05.2012 01:12 "Thomas Tanghus Olsen"<thomas at tanghus.net>  написа:
>>> On Saturday 05 May 2012 01:00 Georgi Kourtev wrote:
>>>> 12.04, KDE 4.8.3
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to launch Kppp for USB wireless modem, but the program do
>>>
>>> not
>>>
>>>> open.  Through terminal I got this:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/kppp: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> With sudo kppp it starts however. How can this be corrected?
>>>> gk
>>>
>>> sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/kppp
>>>
>>> Why do you use kppp? The network manager handles wireless modems just fine
>>> afaik.
>>>
>> Strangely enough, when I plug the modem, network manager wireless modem tab
>> is not active. This issue i jave since 11.04. Before that it worked just
>> fine.
>
> Weird. I don't use it myself, but if I push the wrong button on my phone, it
> automatically pops up ready to connect to my provider. I got a bit confused
> first time it happened :-P
>
try "kdesudo kppp", that is what I used when I was still using kppp. I 
changed the launcher/menu to that command as well.

Otherwise good old cli command wvdial still beats them all..