On 01/26/12 03:39, Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington<odhia...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
You know, sometimes all this process is what makes people shy off of *BSD. I am
a diehard lover of FreeBSD, but the few times I have installed Linux on my
laptop, this whole process was a breeze... well, not quite, but not as
difficult as it is in FreeBSD. Luckily, I use WiFi more than I use 3G, so it's
never quite bothered me. Even now, I just want to see how easy it can be on
PC-BSD/FreeBSD, with a GUI to boot, if there is, but I do not feel it is such a
big necessity for me, because I have D-Link DIR-825 which can use this modem on
it's USB port and allow me to use 3G.
It used to be like that in Linux as well. It's only until recently
that the netowrk manager app supports 3g modems. The problem is when
these graphical apps fail you have virtually no way to see what's
going on, just plug and pray.
If you get the tty, using Wvdial is actuall much easier than any other
dialing/ppp tool I've ever used. So even on Linuxes with NM applet and
3g modem support I would use Wvdial, and on FBSD especially! wvdial is
much more robust than the nm apps, IMHO.
Network manager's a colossal screw up if you ask me- I had no end of
trouble with it when I used linux. One very good reason to use FreeBSD
when nm is inextricably linked to the core of linux (how is a gui app
possibly allowed to do that, I'll never know).
Sorry; and now back to your regular thread...
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