On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:50:35PM -0500, dashielljt wrote: > I'm going to talk in terms of redhat since that's what I had used > previously and also in terms of slackware since that's what I use now. > redhat had wvdial included along with a support package for finding dial > up modems. Slackware has minicom but no additional package built in for > this purpose. It's true one can download and install ezsetup but again
wvdial is a nice program, but all it does behind the scenes is replace chat with a better redialing system, and call pppd just like any other ppp connection. > that wvdial will work on slackware if properly installed since I didn't > get that done. On the other hand, ethernet is set up by the same program > on slackware and redhat and I suspect other linux versions; ifconfig. > That's because ifconfig has become a standard of sorts. Standards get > there when things get built into the genes of operating systems. When This is apples and oranges, wvdial is just a user-friendly dialer. pppd is what goes on behind the scenes and that is not only standardized, it's built-in to the Linux kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
