Re: gnome-ppp not working

["Braden N. McDaniel" <braden shadow net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <harry.gebel@gte.net>
To: <braden@endoframe.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: gnome-ppp not working


> "Braden N. McDaniel" wrote:
> > 
> > Whenever I try to connect with gnome-ppp, I immediately get an error
> > dialog saying "the PPP daemon died unexpectedly". I can connect with
> > "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup ppp0" just fine.

[snip]

> I just solved this problem today by changing the permissions on
> /dev/modem with:
> chmod o+rw /dev/modem

Thanks! That's what worked for me (though in my case, it was /dev/ttyS1).

It seems odd that gnome-ppp should require this. Is this a bug?

Braden