Setting up a connection with the dialog based setup is not too much more difficult than using the wizard.
You can reach the setup dialog the same way you did the wizard. Start KPPP from your menu, where you will find its entry in the as .
The following dialog will appear:
The KPPP dialer startup screen
It will probably not have any entries to begin with, and that's what we're about to do now.
Click the button to begin setting up a new Internet connection.
This time, choose Dialog setup and you'll see the following Dialog appear:
The New Account Dialog
The New Account dialog contains the following sections:
You normally won't need to fill in all these, although each of them is described in the following sections.
The Accounts Dial tab
The Dial tab has the following options:
You must give the account a name. This can be anything you like, but if you have more than one account, each name must be unique.
Specify the phone number to dial. You can use characters such as
“-” to make the number more legible. If you concatenate a series
of numbers separated by a colon (for example,
1111111:2222222:3333333
, KPPP will try these numbers one
after the other whenever it receives a busy signal. You can use the
button to add another number,
to remove a number from the list, and the
up and down arrows to change the order of
the list.
Choose the appropriate method of authentication that KPPP should use to log into the server. Check with your provider for more information. Use of PAP and CHAP are described in the chapter Chapter 7, PAP and CHAP.
Check this option if you want KPPP to remember your password between sessions.
This will bring up the pppd arguments dialog. You can use this dialog to add any desired options that you want KPPP to hand to pppd. See the pppd man page for a list of available options, but unless you know exactly what you are doing, you should probably restrain yourself from tinkering with these.
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