[kde-linux] Re: Broken kppp after previously working! Please help!

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2010-10-27, Duncan wrote:
> Frank K posted on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:55:44 -0700 as excerpted:
> >       To recap, BG always worked. BB started working with kppp when I
> >       added myself to the dialout group. BB started working with
> >       qinternet when I manually changed the serial port from ttyS1 to
> >       ttyS0.
> 
> Thank you! =:^)  There's few enough dialup users left, and many of the
> rest of us were eager enough to forget it like a bad dream, that having
> your report of the problem and fix in the archives is a very good thing;
> it'll very possibly help someone else who comes looking for that answer,
> that most of us couldn't help, however much we'd like to.

It might be true that there are only a few users are using traditional dialup, 
but a lot of so-called mobile broadband devices are dialup as well, i.e. 
simulating a modem.
Only very few of those simulate an ethernet device and do the "dial in" as 
part of their driver/firmware.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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