Almost there, except ppp
 

(Slack 9.0) Got lilo to work, x configuration ok, gnome fine, and can dial out as root. Created a user group for dialing out, setuid'd pppd. As a non-root user I can type /usr/sbin/ppp-go and it will respond with "script failed". I'm thinking maybe a permission problem? What are the other associated ppp files and what permissions should they be? What about the options file? Do I need to do a pppsetup for a non-root user? Thx in advance.

What happens when you start
ppp-go with -d as root? Will it
then connect for the other users
if they initiate traffic, like trying to
access a webpage?

That's what I was using while still
routing my network through the modem
on dialup ;) (Slack 8.1, though)

Cheers,
Tink

I didn't actually try the suggestion. But looking elsewhere, the following seems to have a solution:

www.gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15

Now this could be a new thread. Has anyone gotten slack9.0/wvdial1.5/wvstreams3.70 to work together? If so, (slack)world wants to know...

May have found a solution to my own question. See site:

http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/v...wvstreams.html

Caveats: Don't update openssh and carefully note the spelling of downloaded patches.

Success, finally. Carefully following install of wvstreams through patch, and wvdial, I was able to at least get wvdial to respond. But, I had a problem in having getting wvdialconf to detect the modem. It turns out "setserial" clobbers it, afterall, wvdial is supposed to be smart. After disabling setserial (and rebooting), I followed README instructions located in the wvdial untarred directory. Modem lights doesn't respond yet, but now I can get to the net as a normal user in slack9/gnome!

I had a problem with getting wvdial to work with slackware 9.0.

It complained about 'ipstreams' upon compilation of wvstreams.

Does the openssl package contain ipstreams?

Did wvdial install? I noticed some strangeness when installiing wvstreams through patch, but it did not return an error. If you're having a problem installing wvdial, I suggest starting afresh. Download wvstreams and patch from the linuxfromscratch site and see what happens. Did you notice the spelling of "crypto.patch"? The patch files need to be one level above the untarred wvstreams directory, and input the commands from the untarred wvstreams directory.

Do I install wvstreams first before I patch it?

No. With the wvstreams-patches one level above your untarred wvstreams directory, type in the following from within the untarred wvstreams directory, pressing "enter" after each line:

patch -Np1 -i ../wvstreams-3.70-wvcrpyto.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../wvstreams-3.70-wvresolver.patch &&
make PREFIX=/usr LDFLAGS="-lcrypt" &&
make PREFIX=/usr install

After the last line, wvstreams should install. Then after wvstreams installs, then install wvdial.

sounds about right. and that fixes the 'ipstreams' error Im getting when trying to compile wvstreams? (w/o the patch)

thansk