On Saturday 29 March 2003 14:31, rcc wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:03:41 +0100 > > Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 29 March 2003 13:28, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > > Better support of dial up on more places, including: > > > > - dialup for users > > (where-should-i-click-to-connect-to-the-net-syndrom) > > yea, I second that. It goes for both analogue and ISDN dialup. I've had > a hell of a time getting a winmodem set up, with the modem autodetected > but the already existing device and modules not recognized for the very, > very, very common conexant HSF modem. Well alright, maybe I should have > made an rpm for the drivers, but hey, there already were alias > /dev/modem lines in modules.conf. > > Then I again had the old pains of getting kppp to connect and actually > hold the line, always the dreaded "Error 16, ppp daemon died > unexpectedly". When I eventually did get it running (I think I put users > in secondary group tty) the bugger still keeps dieing randomly. This > happens for the winmodem and a pcmcia modem on a laptop. > > And I'm very reluctant to upgrade my friend's ISDN box because of the > stress it would cause me.
if he has good hardware and he do not want anything else then dialup you may have luck ;) > > - possibility to have configured more then one isp at a time > > exactly > > > - update isdn4k-utils > > right > > I think it would be great to get a working dialup daemon. Something > along the line of SuSE's smpppd plus frontends (kinternet). Steffen once > posted about a fairly similar app the name of which now escapes > me. I remember though that the app provided a dialup server and > frontends for KDE and GTK. Maybe we can have that in contrib and test it > for the next release. mserver as well as LineControl are in contrib :) (thanks to buchan). And the author of gmasqdialer (mserver) told me he want to have a look at LineControl > And please, do something about the permissions, > I'm losing hair at an alarming rate whenever I try to configure dialups. Yes this is important too. I can't say how often I described the way to get dial up for users in newsgroups/webboards. This seems to be problematic for a lot. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
