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

[Allan Swanepoel]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Phill <phanback at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >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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