On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Matt Parker wrote:
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:28:32 +0000 From: Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk To: ALUG main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Installing Linux mail
Just start up KPPP and enter the details (its in the Internet menu). Don't use the Mandrake Control Centre (that's for persistent connections, as you have discovered). KPPP is almost exactly the same as the Internet Connection Wizard in Windows.
Matt
I hadn't discovered any such thing, only that it crashed.
I took a look in the kdenetwork-kppd-provide package, installed by Mandrake. This looks just the thing, but there was no KPPP on my desktop and no executable file in the package. A look through the packages on the distro and I find one with KPPP, which mandrake did not install. I had to install libpcap and ppp too, and I know that nothing will work without ppp.
Looks like Mandrake only did half a job.
I can dial the ISP now, but can't log in! Some small error in my set-up I expect.
Many thanks. I would not have found KPPP without some clue.
Leon Stedman.