Just thought other people might be interested in this if you're travelling the world with your Linux laptop. I've got a customer who regularly makes trips to random cities Europe and Asia and as such happened to get global roaming access through Telstra. What then happens is they refer you to this windows software called GRICdial which has 2 purposes. 1) has an updatable database of ISP's around the world you can login via and 2) to actually setup the connection. My customer is not technical and now uses a Linux desktop to VNC back to head office.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:13:33 +1000 (EST) From: Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GRIC Dialer for Linux - I made one Attention GRIC/GoRemote technical support staff, There is now a starting point for Linux and Linux-like users who wish to use your global roaming services. In response to a customer of mine who isn't very technical I've come up with simple system that can consult your database (like the Windows GRIC dialer does) and initiate a dialup connection to any of the ISP's around the world participating. The URL for the project is currently here:- http://www.linuxhelp.com.au/~grant The software is very generic and as such should work on most varieties of Linux whether using graphics or just text mode. It just uses ppp, ncurses, perl and dialog packages. It's also CPU architecture independant as it's just text and script files. Please consider adding this information to your technical FAQ at this web location:- http://www.goremote.com/pdfs/faqs_tech.pdf With a little further work it's probably worthy of including in your download section. Given a few screenshots and so forth it would be possible for ISP's helpdesks to understand how it works without actually having to run it, therefore it could be said that Linux is now a supported operating system. -- ---<GRiP>--- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
