OK, this sounds a bit strange but:

1) I use Enlightenment as Desktop;
2) I use Gnome apps;
3) I also use some generic X apps;

I dont use Kde apps (anymore) but I can't wipe out all of my kde*.rpm from my hard disk because I've never been able to connect to the Internet without KPPP! This little application is preventing me to do the great step (there's something I don't like about kde's way of intending the free software philosophy - read some articles by Stallman).

So I ask you guys:

1) Have you ever heard about any non-kde application to do the job as easy as kppp?

2) And first of all: why is it so easy to get connected with kppp? It won't ever ask me passwds or permissions and all, while gnome-ppp does, and even after I grant everybody in the world access to my /usr/sbin/ppp* /etc/ppp/* and so on, all it can do is dying "unexpectedly". So far I've tried gnome-ppp, redhat's dialer, xisp, wvdial (need to experiment more on the last two), apart from slack scripts.

3) If all else fails: to reduce at a minimum a kde installation which packages should in your opinion be compulsory installed in order to run just kppp (it's not so elegant, I know)???

Thank you for answering!

el_felipe

Bottom-half of the page........http://web.cs.mun.ca/~csclub/pppserv.html

Of course use the most recent builds of these.

i use kde most of the time, but use wvdial instead of kppp, here's a good faq on wvdial configuration.
http://dsb3.com/wvdial/wvfaq.html