Gnome-PPP Problem

[Jonathan Drews <j e drews worldnet att net>]

I am reposting this as I made a mistake in my first submission: ttys0
should have been ttyS0.

Hi Gnome Users:

I am trying to get Gnome-PPP to work in my user account. It WILL dial out
and stay connected in root.  
Here is the relevant portion of my /var/log/messages file:

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Aug 11 16:10:00 localhost kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered 
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demanddialling)
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0 
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost pppd[1466]: pppd 2.3.10 started by planck, uid 501
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost pppd[1466]: Failed to open /dev/modem:
Permission denied 
Aug 11 16:10:49 localhost pppd[1466]: Exit.

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The perplexing thing is that kppp works and (I believe) uses the same port
that Gnome-PPP should. That is /dev/modem is a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0,
which is what Kppp uses. Anyway, here are the relevant devices and their
permissions:

[planck@localhost /dev]$ ls -l modem
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           10 Jun 22 05:07 modem -> /dev/ttyS0 

[planck@localhost /dev]$ ls -l ttyS0
crw-------   1 root     tty        4,  64 Aug 12 05:55 ttyS0

Both of these guys look OK:

[planck@localhost bin]$ ls -l *ppp
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        98032 Apr 29 07:50 gnome-ppp*
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       523380 Dec 29  1999 kppp*  

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


                                         Jonathan