Re: Internet Problems With Gnome

[Travis Saling <trav u washington edu>]

> > I am running Mandrake 8.1 with Gnome 1.4 and Nautilus 1.0.4.I am having
> > a problem accessing the Internet from Gnome. I have no problem accessing
> > it from KDE.
> > 
> > The problem is that, a few seconds after I connect to my ISP (MetConnect
> > here in NYC), the PPPD daemon quits. I get a message saying: "The pppd
> > daemon died unexpectedly." This happens when I use gnome-ppp to dial.
> > If I use KPPP to dial, the problem does not happen. I have checked the
> > settings for the connection and they are correct.So there seems to be
> > some issue with either Gnome or Nautilus that is causing the problem.

Well I've used the rp3 dialer that comes with Red Hat, and it works
extremely well - it's a GUI front-end for wvdial. On RPMFind there are 
some other rp3 packages available, but unfortunately I don't see any
that are specifically Mandrake.

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