Sorted. I guess this is why GUI 'configurators' exist.
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 16:47 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > /etc/init.d/rc.local is the simplest hack (not sure of the debian > equivalent, look for some startup file that is convenient and put the > extra line in) > > from here you need to delete the default gateway to your router (which i > assume is 192.168.0.254) and add one for the ppp0 connection. > > wvdial should add a default gateway, perhaps it doesn't because one > already exists. GUI-settable. > perhaps you should write a small bash script which does this: > > delete default route > wvdial > replace default route > > and call that instead of wvdial > > > Q3: Ctrl-C used to hang up wvdial. Any more graceful methods I can employ? > > from the manual: > > "Unlike other ppp dialers you might have used, the wvdial program runs in the > foreground and never exits until you disconnect or have some kind of fatal > error. You can also quit (and disconnect the phone, and clean up politely) > by pressing CTRL-C. I think this is more user-friendly, myself. Of course > if you want it to work like pppd you can always do it in the usual way: > > wvdial >/var/log/wvdial.log 2>&1 & > > It is interesting to note that almost all of WvDial's functionality is found > in a C++ class called WvDialer. That means it's easy for a programmer to > take WvDial and put in whatever kind of user interface he wants. The > "wvdial" program serves as a simple example. So with WvDial, if someone > (say) wanted to write an X-Windows dialup button bar, they could simply link > in the C++ class and not have to worry about messy interactions with > self-backgrounding pppd scripts and other gruesome stuff." Thanks for that. Another crack at the Network Settings panel - disabling eth1 this time - and we're away. Same Gnome item & hardware as works with Fedora Core 2, but hopefully more reliable this time. Testing.. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Rik -- Ubuntu GNU/Linux i686 2.6.8.1-2-386, Gnome 2.8 desktop, Evolution 2.0.1 email, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 office suite, Mozilla 1.7.3 Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.10 browser
