I connect to the net via an external 56k serial modem.

My problem (besides using dialup ) is that a user connects to the internet ok, its just that while connected firefox and other apps refuse to see the connection or load any pages.

Logging out and restarting gnome as root gives me no troubles loading pages in firefox.


Not sure if this is related but I originally could not run ppp-go as a user (non-root) so did the following after reading from a forums search:

By using chmod 6755 on pppd and co I was able to execute them as a normal user. I then created a link to ppp-go and put it in /usr/local/bin. Starts and connects, problem solved so I thought.

Also just a quick question about the '4digit' chmod 6755 command. I noticed it gave -rwsr-sr-x permissions? What does the 's' stand for?

Thanks

s= SUID=set user ID
I'll bet you need dynamic DNS, which pppsetup doesn't have. Try going to my site to downloads/scripts and grab ispsetup. it's a hacked pppsetup that does dns and easier to setup too.
www.amigolinux.org

try using kppp

I went to www.amigolinux.org, tried to download the ispsetup script, and got this:

Not Found
The requested URL /download/scripts/ispsetup1.2 was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.29 Server at amigolinux.org Port 80

Thanks for the broken-link report. Are you using KDE or gnome?

You're welcome.
I'm using KDE.

You should be able to get ispsetup1.2 now.
But, if you are using KDE why not use kppp? To use kppp you shouldn't configure pppsetup at all. In fact you'll need to clean out /etc/ppp some probably, to get it to worl now. try removing all files in /etc/ppp then reinstall the ppp pkg and KDE base or admin or whichever has kppp. the ppp pkg installs only an example options file in /etc/ppp (before RUNNING pppsetup)
I held on to using KDE for a long time just because of kpackage and kppp. Finally I studied how to set up dynDNS and hacked pppsetup to do that using PAP. it only asks for phone#, username, password, modem speed and port.
I think I never once browsed with Konqueror, I was having the same problems as you, but since I was on an old 120MHz machine with 32MB RAM Konqueror took about a minute to start so I switched to using opera which is great and worked without problems.
So, if using kppp, install ppp pkg but don't run pppsetup.
And if using pppsetup or my ispsetup then connect with ppp-on
BTW ispsetup sets up permissions by default allowing users to dial up.