long story, short version. Flat mate fried linux by turning it off before shutting it down. With my inexperience at recovery I think I made it worse so I re formated and reinstalled linux. (install took a very long time to recover the disk)

anyway, using a text based login and using startx to start KDE I'm setting up the modem again. I can set up the modem ok, but when I go to use the interface, it just sits there and doesnt even connect to the modem. last time this was a doddle and worked straight away in graphical login mode.

Any suggestions on were to look?

Thanks,

maybe if you described your problem in more detail ......

ok fixed problem. configuration issue.

found a button marked "debug" in the Dial up configurator and it told me that there was no password set. My isp doesnt need a password, so I had left that blank. putting in a bogus password got me dialing. Next problem, the pppd didnt seem to be starting in debug mode. There seemed to be no way around this untill I tried the RH ppp dialer just to see if it would work and it did - all the way through. posting from linux now

so now, as a curiosity more than anything else, why doesnt the debug version dial all the way through? As soon as I figure out were a note pad equivelent is I can post the modem log.


Thanks,

many things you can use in place of notepad. try kwrite.