On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:04:11 +0100 Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And yes something like kinternet is needed for mandrake. I had last > week a user that asked how to establish the internet connection > without setting it to "dialup at boot" and reboot. (<= LOL) yes, mdk needs something like kinternet. There frequently are questions about ISDN dialup in newsgroups, people just don't understand why they cannot use kppp or a similar tool for ISDN. > I guess I could help you on that. ;) The pppd manpages proposes to use > peer scripts. A user can execute pppd , but can only do well defined > things. One of this things is to start defined dial up connections. > This connections are configured under /etc/ppp/peers/, for example > /etc/ppp/peers/isp1. pppd call isp1 would start the dialup then. The > pppd should be running as uid root then so no ownership of devices > needs to be changed. > (I know you have not asked ;)) <takes notes> thanks > Related question: > Where do the device settigs belong to ? Are they initially set by the > kernel package ? I /think/ they are handled by devfs but don't sue me on that. I never could muster enough motivation to get into devfs. > _If_ you going to make it, I have yet another bug open for some > changes on isdn4k-utils-packaging and i can mail you a .config for the > package. great! > Since there are no important security flaws in it I guess it > is to late. BTW: The vbox-examples are missing too. (another open bug > from me ;)) I saw the reports and noticed the avalanche of replies > I know all that has time now, but maybe it would be good for next > release. definitely, Germany (=ISDN country) is the second largest market next to the US. I just don't understand how mdk can afford to surrender that market to SuSE. I've personally converted lots of people to Mandrake but I always am somwhat reluctant when I meet people with ISDN because of the rather suboptimal ISDN support of mdk. - Mark
