I don't know if this will answer your question, but I had a similar oddness when setting up my FC1 install. I generally set up an alias in my .bashrc as connect='/sbin/ifup ppp0' to connect to my ISP with my modem. This didn't work with FC1 and returned an error about "ppp0 device not found' or something similar. The work-around I used was to "cd /ect/sysconfig/network-scripts" directory and then "cp ifcfg-myISPname ppp0" where "myISPname" was the name of my ISP. I've done a fair number of RH installs and never had this happen before, but this change enables me to make my connection by typing "connect" (without the quotes) from the command line as I have always done and can do so from the console without having to boot to the GUI. Jim Dishaw =================================================== Tom Caudron wrote: I was hoping someone could help with two things. First, I'd like to be able to activate the device (obviously <g>) and be able to surf the net on the laptop via a dial up connection. Second, perhaps someone can direct me to a more HIGified dialer for Gnome? I mean, it can't be that to dial up an ISP a user should have to go to the Network Device Control panel to activate the modem. Seems kinda odd.
