Thanks for your answer Alex, But this does solve my problem. USERCTL=yes already exists. Well, why do you need gnome-ppp. Please refer to my another question regarding gnumeric templates too. In fact, my aim to use a totally gnome environment. OO.o is very slow at times just struck - takes around 450MB of my memory. I wanted to try gnome office. But even though I can convert to .gnumeric files, I cannot use (open?) them as templates. Another problem is to have some software as easy as kppp. I cannot configure modem lights. It doesn't work for me. It asks 'do you want to connect?' Say 'yes' and that's all. Gnome-ppp, I can connect as root. As an ordinary user, it says modem does not exists at all ?! Any help in the above matters is welcome. Again, my aim to have a total gnome desktop. Only these two stand in my way. Rajesh On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 05:23 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > I don't know the gnome-ppp tool, but the general way to let users set up > and down a device is by adding > > USERCTL=yes > > to the device configuration, here > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0. You can do that too by using > GUI tool system-config-network. > > Alexander >