Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-05 Thread Oded Arbel
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

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-05 Thread Aviram Jenik
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

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-04 Thread Ira Abramov
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

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-04 Thread Aviram Jenik
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

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-04 Thread Ira Abramov
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,

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-03 Thread David Suna
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