From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 Description of problem: I just purchased RH7.2. The installation went through fine, and then I tried configuring my modem and ISP connection. Normally I use my own dialup/chat scripts. But this time I wanted to do exactly as the documentation says. So I tried configuring the modem using start->dialup-config->blahblah. It found my modem (external V.90), and then I tried using the RH PPP Dialer to connect. It just won't find the modem. The problem turned out to be lack of /dev/modem symlink. I put that in place and it did dial/connect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just Install RH7.2 fresh. 2. After instal, restart m/c and configure dialup n/w. 3. Use RH PPP dialer and try going online. Doesn't work. Needs to have the /dev/modem symlink to get things going. Actual Results: Well dialup networking doesn't work using just the gui tools. Expected Results: It shold work just as explained in the doc. I should not have to do anything extra (and definitely not on the command line). Additional info: In general the dialup networking configuration tools are *very* confusing and non-intutive. They don't do any value addition - that has been aroud in some linux based tools earlier: e.g. there is no support for trying multiple ISP numbers in sequence (there used to be a gui tool named X-ISP that used to have this feature). Such basic things must work seamlessly. I am now back to my hand crafted shell script that invokes ppp directly over multiple chatscript (one for each ISP number).
does it work now with system-config-network?