A promising candidate for a real GUI PPP dialer is the rp3 package in
the latest Redhat. It's a front end to wvdial and ifup, and it's as easy
as you can get: you supply it with the phone number of your ISP, your
username and password, and it takes care of the rest. It even figures
out how to navigate ISPs in the dark ages that still use terminal
sessions without _any_ user intervention. It's not a finished product
(the applet in the latest version is broken, for example), but it has a
lot of potential.
Andrew
Anton Graham wrote:
>
> Submitted 16-May-00 by Alan N.:
> | Gavin Clark wrote:
> | >
> | > >From: "Jos� Ignacio Alvear Zapata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | > > I'm trying to use KDE as less as possible, but there are some features that
> | > > I still don't know how to set up with GNOME. Could some of you help me?
> | > >
> | > > 1) I would like to dial to my ISP using some aplication like Kppp. Is there
> | > > some for GNOME?
> | >
> | > there is a ppp dial util in gnome but it sucks. you can still use kppp by
> | > opening it via the command line.
> | >
> | I'm not sure what you mean. I'm using the gnome ppp dialer, it works
> | just fine.
> |
> | However, kppp which I used to use, I cannot dial unless root.. Since the
> | gnome dialer worked fine, I never put much thought into fixing it.
>
> For that matter, the modem lights applet makes a handy dialer if you set
> it up right. Set up the dialup through linuxconf as ppp0. Oce you are
> satisfied that users can "/sbin/ifup ppp0" successfully, open up the
> properties for the modem lights applet and put that as the dialup command
> and "/sbin/ifdown ppp0" for the disconnect. After that, the button on the
> bottom or left of it (depending on how you have it setup) acts as a
> dial/disconnect button.
>
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