[wellylug] kppp alternatives

[Mark Signal]

You may have already tried all of this but....
did you try dpkg-reconfigure kppp ?
locate kppp to find it?
apropos kppp for misc info?

cheers

Mark


Nick Jensen wrote:

> Hi all, I have recently gotten a Debian (Woody 3.2 I think) box up
>and running, looks lovely, behaves well etc, but I still haven't
>managed to connect it to the wide world, the reason being that in my
>excitement of getting it working I forgot to select kppp in dselect
>while installing. kppp is the only dialler I have used to date, I know
>there are others but I don't know how to use them.
> I have tried running dselect again, and it now says kppp is
>installed, but it if is I don't know where. I seem to have some empty
>kppp folders here and there, which isn't encouraging. I even
>downloaded a kppp.deb package and tried to install it, but it had
>heaps of dependancy problems. What I would like to do is get a
>connection working somehow, set up apt to point at some web locations
>instead of my installation discs and start upgrading - and if I can
>get a different dialler to work I'll be happy to stick with it. A
>simpler one would be good, I don't want to rely on the GUI.
> So...what do the rest of you who, like me, are crippled with a 56K
>modem, use to touch the outside world with your linux machines? Is
>there a generic dialler that probably is already installed on my
>machine that is easy to configure?
> Thanks,
>
>        Nick
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