Thanks For the help I appreciate it
Alan On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:39, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:24 am, Alan wrote: > > stupid question. > > > > Is there a gui based dialer for linux to connect through a > > pppoe connection? > > > > I currently use adsl-connect. > > > > Thanks > > You should be usin 'adsl-start', -connect is for problem > connections and only <Ctrl-c> will kill it. Anyhow... > > The gui is rp-pppoe-gui It's on your CD's > > To run it, type 'tkpppoe' as root to set it up, after that you > can use it as user if you select that option during setup. The > rpm will also install a menu item named Tkpppoe under Internet | > Remote Acess (KDE). > > Personally I find it easier to start/stop the connection from > the CL usin aliases to save typing. Mostly I just leave it up > 24/7 bringing it down only for system shutdowns (kernel change). > alias dsl='adsl-start' > alias dsld='adsl-stop' > Just because these commands require root privilege, doesn't mean > you're online connected as root.
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