Re: GUI program for pppoe
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:52:20AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Thu, 03 Aug: Hi, Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. pon/poff is generally for ppp connections. You should also be able to define a ppp0 network interface and use ifup/ifdown. # apt-cache search ppp|grep -i kde kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd but I still think it's pointless... Right. I could not make it work with pppoeciadsl . pppoe seems basically the same. It's a GUI for a totally different task. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 19:32 +0300, Aviram Jenik wrote: Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. I googled for a while, but couldn't find anything relevant (except for a project that hasn't been maintained in the last 4 years). Does anyone know if there's a simple way to do this on KDE? Most modern linux distributions have a network configuration wizard that supports setting all kinds of connections, including DSL. They then offer you interesting ways in which a user can invoke such connections - for example, Mandriva have a network applet tray icon from which you can connect to the internet, while Fedora requires you to use a modem applet or have the user run system-config-network unpriviliged, in which case only the relevant interfaces can be turned on an off. None of these interfaces are KDE centric, but as they are integrated into the distribution desktop it should not be a problem. otherwise you can probably tinker around with kppp to let you do that. -- Oded ::.. Mine were the very cipher of a function, -- Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene II condor InfoSec CDC SCUD missile CISU $400 million in gold bullion Kennedy Geraldton Al-Qaeda PET Perl-RSA FBI = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:54, Oded Arbel wrote: Most modern linux distributions have a network configuration wizard that supports setting all kinds of connections, including DSL. Any idea if there's something like that on Debian? otherwise you can probably tinker around with kppp to let you do that. From what I've seen kppp needs a phone number (i.e. it's a modem dialer not an ADSL dialer). Am I missing something? -- Oded - Aviram To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Thu, 03 Aug: Hi, Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. kde and gnome both let you define icons to run any command you want, why not create two for pon and poff? I've never even bumped into such questions since the broadband prices went down, I just set machines to dial as soon as the OS comes up and keep it alive, period. why would you ever want to manually futz around with that? I googled for a while, but couldn't find anything relevant (except for a project that hasn't been maintained in the last 4 years). Does anyone know if there's a simple way to do this on KDE? # apt-cache search ppp|grep -i kde kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd but I still think it's pointless... -- A familiar face in a strange land Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Ira Abramov wrote: I just set machines to dial as soon as the OS comes up and keep it alive, period. Me too. But that person has a laptop, and he wants to come home, connect it to the ADSL modem and turn the connection 'on'. Sure, he can buy an ADSL router instead but I think it's silly when connecting to ADSL on Linux is so trivial. why would you ever want to manually futz around with that? Because it's there # apt-cache search ppp|grep -i kde kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd That's the first program I checked out - it's for modem dialing, not ADSL. For one, it expects a phone number. - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Fri, 04 Aug: On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Ira Abramov wrote: Me too. But that person has a laptop, and he wants to come home, connect it to the ADSL modem and turn the connection 'on'. ahh, that makes more sense. ok then, back to my first idea, define two icons that activate pon and poff... -- Snake oil salesman Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
I have been using tkpppoe on a RedHat 9 system (GNOME) for a couple of years. I had to download the source and recompile it to get it to work with my Alcatel Speedtouch modem to connect to actcom. This was all quite a long time ago but under the old adage of If it ain't broke don't fix it I am still running that system. On a side note: I installed RedHat 9 at the time for a project I was working on. Since nothing lasts forever I want to think about what to do when I have to upgrade the system. The distributions out there have changed radically with new distributions out. Without trying to start a distribution war I wanted to know what people would recommend for a system that needs to provide the following requirements: 1. Connect to the Internet via ADSL (currently I use actcom as my ISP) 2. Provide NAT services to an internal network of mainly windows machines 3. Provide SAMBA services for the internal network 4. Run Apache, PHP, MySQL for internal web application development 5. Run dosemu for an old DOS accounting application that is still holding on 6. The Windows machines will sometimes connect to the Linux box using Cygwin's X server. I think that is it for now. When the time comes I will probably have to replace it in a hurry so I am looking for something that would just work. Thanks, David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aviram Jenik wrote: Hi, Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. I googled for a while, but couldn't find anything relevant (except for a project that hasn't been maintained in the last 4 years). Does anyone know if there's a simple way to do this on KDE? - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
