Re: [LI] Kwvdial problem

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sameer,

Thanks for the help.

There is a nice KDE frontend called Kwvdial developed by
patrick patterson. I was trying to connect using that. I contacted
the  author and he gave me the solution ( same as what you
have mentioned ).

I created /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial file and entered the following 
name wvdial

(noauth is not required in my case).

If you install Kwvdial, there is not need to install wvdial separatly.
Kwvdial is a nice front end. If somebody is interested then it is
available in RPM format at 

http://www.cnss.ca/~ppatters/KWvDial.html

I got the sources of Kwvdial at freshmeat.com

Thanks again.

Rajesh


On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> 
> >Jan  5 20:14:18 rajesh pppd[982]: Can't open options file
> >/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial: No such file or directory 
> >I added noauth to my options file and copied that file to 
> >/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial directory
> Oops! Wrong move ... that file is already there and is installed by the
> wvdial rpm. I think you should install wvdial again using '--f' option so
> that the right files are written again.
> A 'rpm -qf /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial' on my system gave the following output:
> # wvdial-1.40-5
> 
> The wvdial manpage mentions this particular file - you have to add the
> entry 'New PPPD' to your /etc/wvdial.conf file. It has something to do with
> the newer pppd.2.2 package which has to be explicitly told by wvdial about
> where the file is present.
> 
> Anyway, the above file contains only two lines and you could recreate it on
> your own -
> noauth
> name wvdial
> 
> Although the 'noauth' option is present in this file, pppd seems to ignore
> it and so it has to be mentioned again in the ppp config file.
> 
> >man ppp say no manual entry.
> Sorry! That should have been 'man pppd'.
> Also try 'man wvdial' and 'man wvdialconf' for more info.
> 
> HTH,
> Sameer. 
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