Douglas Royds wrote:
I have had great success with gnome-ppp. If you're using dial-up under
Gnome, forget about the modem-dialer panel applet (it consumes some
10% processor time on my machine all the time, whether connected or
not), and install gnome-ppp instead. [I immediately recovered 5% CPU
load - nice bonus.]
Gnome-ppp is a GUI for wvdial. Run it, type in a phone number and
password, click on connect, and everything leaps into life. Couldn't
be easier.
Douglas.
Champion, Douglas. You've saved me 2-4+ minutes connection setup on
every single workday. :-)
I'd heard of http://www.gnome-ppp.org , but never got to the point of
installing it.
- Just shows what an inspiration joint work can be.
Cheers, Rik
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