(SOLVED) Gkdial? A Chestnut-dialer alternative?

[nitehawk]

  Just wondering if it could be possible to have another small dial-up dialer besides Chestnut-dialer to use in VL Standard?  I can't seem to get WvDial (and the frontend gui for it, which I think is called something like PyWvDial) to work.  It keeps saying that I have entered a wrong login name (which I know I didn't). 
  Chestnut-dialer works pretty well,...but won't let me on certain websites for some reason.  With KPPP in the KDE Classic,..I have no problem what-so-ever.  But I prefer using VL Standard (and am looking forward to VL7)!  So,...is there any ideas of another little dialer,  maybe like Gkdial,..(for dial-up) to have in the repositories?  Thanks.  (wish I was a programmer). 

[bigpaws]

Why not just use what everything uses for the backend rp-pppoe?

To setup as root type pppoe-setup and follow the prompts. It will
dial on demand and has all the settings you need. You can monitor
the connection with something like conky or gkrellm.

As far as  not allowing access to some sites. That is more than
likely a DNS issue.

Bigpaws

[nitehawk]

...thanks!  I'll give that a try. 
EDIT: actually,..now that I think about it,...I believe it was "PPPsetup" that I have used before (for dialup).  It works,...but is a "tad" too basic for what I am looking for.  I'm not a slave to the GUI,...it's just a little nicer and easier to have.

[vector]

there is a gui in the repo for wvdial may want to give it a shot......called pywvdial
should beable to chase it down with gslapt.

Vec

[nitehawk]

Oh, hello there, Vector!
  Yes,...I mentioned in my first post about trying the PyWvdial gui frontend to WvDial.  Just kept giving me the message of (something like) "incorrect login" no matter what I did.  Anyway,...Chestnut-dialer works on most all sites (just Ebay,...which I use a lot).  I have no problems with any other distro (except Slackware and Slackware-based).  It really isn't a "show-stopper" for me, since I like VL Standard so much.  I'll eventually figure out a work-around or something.  Thanks for the helpfull suggestions, though.  (I'll go ahead and mark this as solved, anyhow).  I'll contunue to "google" my little fingers off about what might be a problem on Ebay's end. 

[bigpaws]

Try changing your DNS servers.

Bigpaws

[nitehawk]

Try changing your DNS servers.

Bigpaws

..yeah, I've tried OpenDNS and Google's DNS,...but get the same thing (Http/1.1 Bad Request) in Ebay,..whether in Firefox, Seamonkey, or Opera.  It's not the fault of VL, I'm certain,...since in VL KDE Classic (with KPPP) there's no problem at all.  Since the problem is only with VL6 Standard+Ebay,...it isn't an earth-shattering thing (just perplexing).  (And I'm not the smartest thing that ever fell off a rock,...)

[prince]

Bid Monkey:
     An engine for automated biding on Ebay auctions.

http://pedram.redhive.com/code/bid_monkey/

Eploy:
   A tool that stores the ending prices of Ebay auctions and creates plots and statistical info from them.

http://wareseeker.com/publisher/eploy-team/192988/

hope this helps.

For repository? 

[nitehawk]

WOOT!!!
Just had a bit of a "break-through"....
I just now was able to directly connect my dial-up from terminal (via "ppp-on").  And Ebay is behaving nicely now!
OK,...I can live with doing dialup like that (when I need Ebay).  Otherwise, Chestnut-dialer will work for all other stuff.   
PS...thanks, bigpaws, for giving me the suggestion about directly using the terminal,.....it worked with Ebay!