Okay I know this is a long-shot, but under XP whenever any application requests a network connection that is not up, that network connection will automatically start up to satisfy the app. Thus, if I start firefox, my ISP will automatically be dialed because the OS recognizes firefox is trying to talk to a NW connection that isn't up. In MDK 10.1 I have to open kppp, click connect, then open a browser -- is there anyway to have Linux behave more like XP in that when any application (not just a script wrapper around a browser) tries to connect to my ISP and the network isn't up, it's automatically dialed? Thanks!

wvdial does exactly what you want, but I haven't used it yet. I just dial in with kppp and stay online till I'm through with the connection.

See: man wvdial

(You'll have to install wvdial to get the manpage).

Michael

the pppsetup package with ppp-go supports demand dialing. I've used it.

Very cool, thanks for both suggestions. I'll check them out!

Thanks's whansard, but ppp-go is for Redhat and we're using Mandrake. I suppose you could download the source and compile it for Mandrake.

That's changing by the way. Instead of 'rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm', it has become 'rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm'. It took me by surprise because I'm still using the old method, but rpm-4.2.2-15mdk, which I have, has backward compatibility. The next release won't.

I think it might be a little much for a newbie, but you've got to start somewhere.

I did install wvdial and tried to get it configured, but it didn't want to work with Mozilla. Since I didn't have time to play around that day, I just kept the manpage and removed the program. I may give it another run.

How about it, registering, did you get it working?

Michael

No, I couldn't find ppp-go which your post explains why, and I installed wvdial but never got it to work automagically. Since Mandriva's MCC can't monitor ppp0 connections, I'm back to using kppp to manually launch the NW and monitor it.

Well, that makes both of us then. I'll take some time to work on it sometime soon, and post a new thread on the subject.

Michael