Ok, so I'm clueless. :) Setting up an external modem.

[Steven W. Moyer]

I just worked through this problem (it also exists on RedHat later than 7.0). 
The fancy -schmancy GUI setup routines all use wvdial, which when it installs 
creates a config file /etc/wvdial.conf that needs the  following line added 
to its [Default Dialer] section:

new PPPD=1

This line enables support for the new PPP daemon and also requires the 
/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial file to exist.  Unfortunately, its fairly hard to clean 
all the installation garbage off the machine after running the GUI tools.  
Try this:

1)  Using the GUI (I'm using RH dialup configurator), delete all modems and 
dialup connections.
2)  From a shell, delete the /etc/wvdial.conf file
3)  From a shell, run wvdialconf to create a new configuration file (and find 
the modem you deleted.
4)  With an editor (your choice, I use vi), add the line above to the 
wvdial.conf file.
5)  From the GUI, create a dialup account, but no modems (leave the dialup 
account set to Default modem and it will use the one found by wvdialconf).
6)  Change the ppp0 (or ppp1 or whatever) in the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file 
to an asterisk.
7)  Change the ppp0 (or ppp1 or whatever) in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file to 
an asterisk.

This should make the account work for all users (I had certain combinations 
that only allowed root to dial, even though the configuration had the "allow 
users to start and stop interface" check box marked.

The GUI configuration program is actually called rp3-config and the dialer is 
rp3.  Try starting them from a shell if you have problems, and their debug 
output will be displayed.

Good luck and let me know how you make out, smoyer

On Thursday 16 May 2002 02:23 pm, you wrote:
>   Jackie-
>
> I'm using Gnome, but I assume KDE is similar (it has an internet dialer
> tool), and I think you should be able to access the Gnome menu through
> the start menu in KDE. Anyway, in Gnome, there is a dialup configuration
> tool in the internet menu. This is where you set up info for the ISP -
> username, password phone number etc. It recognized that I didn't have a
> modem configured yet and detected it for me. You may have a harder time
> getting it to work in MacOS. I have a 56K US Robotics modem, and I was
> never able to get it to go any faster than 2400 in system 7.5. OS9 dealt
> with it just fine, so I didn't worry about it since I upgraded to OS 9
> shortly after getting the modem.
>
> If you run into any problems, let me know and I'll try to help.
>
> Cindy
>
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