You can and it works just like any other modem except I dial #777 (Or whatever the vendor wants you to dial) and use a generic username with no password. The Chatscript is provided by the phone vendors (Or at least Sierra Wireless provided one for my card). I think some providers require a PIN but I am not sure how that is handled.
gprsec (http://gprsec.linuxforum.hu) is the tool I currently use for my Cingular (GSM card) and I just use pppon for my on-call Verizon (EVDO Card). Thanks, Darren On 12/14/06, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:03 -0500, Jason C. Greb wrote: > > What about looking to see if ppp0 is an active connection? I have a > > program called conky that I run on the desktop, and it polls ppp0. When > > it gets an IP address, it displays it along with transfer statistics. I > > have the same problem as Matej, because I can't make VPN connections > > because NM doesn't know it's connected. > > Yeah, I know that's a problem. But I'd like to do this the "right" way, > even if it takes a few more weeks or such. Which means doing the hard > integration work and making it "Just Work" rather than trying to > shoehorn in stuff to accommodate the 10 different ways Linux distros > currently do PPP stuff. > > Quick question though; for those of you doing PPP over GPRS/EDGE or EVDO > cards, can you use wvdial? What does your connection process look like > and how did you set up the card/connection? > > Dan > > > > > Jason > > > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:06 +0000, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I know there are some attempts to make PPP working with NM, but I have > > > > slightly more simple answer. Is it possible to *discover* existing PPP > > > > connection with NM created by other means (i.e., running wvdial in > > > > su-ued > > > > gnome-terminal)? I have incredibly crappy connection (or bad support for > > > > PCMCIA GPRS card in Linux, I don't know), so it takes me three or four > > > > or > > > > more attempts to get connection, but then it would be nice if NM could > > > > find out that the connection happened and inform other programs > > > > (Epiphany, > > > > Evolution, etc.) about being connected, and if NM would be able to > > > > establish VPN connection over that. Is it possible, or I am just > > > > dreaming > > > > RFE? > > > > > > Probably dreaming for an RFE, sorry :) There's no really good way I can > > > think of to detect an already running PPP instance since the pieces just > > > aren't there to do it well. Hence the work to make PPP more > > > integrated... > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
