The KPPP wizard
You can start the wizard from KPPP's initial screen. Start KPPP from your menu, where you will find its entry in the as .
The following dialog will appear:
The KPPP dialer startup dialog
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.
The wizard will offer you three choices, , and
The wizard asks you what you want to do
Choose this if you really don't want to be setting up a new account right now. The message box will go away, and you will be left with the dialer window as before.
If you have a fairly standard modem, and use one of the larger ISP's for your country, the wizard will probably be able to set you up immediately with a working Internet Connection. Try this first, before you try to set up the connection manually.
If you don't succeed with the Wizard, or you just want to do things yourself, choose this. The wizard currently is only useful for a small subset of countries and Internet Providers.
For the purposes of this chapter, we'll assume you are choosing , and the dialog based setup will be described in a later chapter.
The first window you see contains just introductory text, explaining the things you read about in the first section of this chapter. Click to move on.
The second window asks you to choose the country you live in. Not all countries are represented here, and if the country you live in is not listed, you will have to click , in which case the Dialog-based setup will start for you to continue with.
On the next window, you will be given a choice of Internet Providers that KPPP knows about, based on your choice of location in the previous window. Again, if your ISP is not listed here, you will have to click and do your setup in the Dialog-based setup
You will now be asked to enter your username and password for your internet connection. Please note, that for some ISPs this differs from your mail account user name and password, so make sure you use the right one. Choose to continue.
On the next window, you have a chance to enter any special dial prefixes you might have - for example, if you must dial “0” for an outside line, or if you have a prefix you can dial to turn off call waiting. Choose to continue.
And that's all! If you want to revisit any of your choices, you can use the and buttons to move back and forth through the dialogs. When you're done with your settings, click the button, and you're all done.
If you need more details, you can read the full KPPP
manual in the KDE Help Center, or by typing
help:/kppp in the Location
bar in Konqueror.
