Dial up tools

[Scott Dier]

Throwing in my two cents, I've found kppp to work well and use it even
on gnome systems.  Its a well written app.

* Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com> [040909 15:30]:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 16:53 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 16:50 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > > >Selecting Computer menu -> Networking -> Add -> Modem (PPP) immediately
> > > >gives an error about wvdial not being installed. It is correct too. I'm
> > > >left with pppconfig according to IRC, which is "too hard" because of
> > > >aforementioned lack of knowledge of how my modem works or should work.
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > Is wvdial the right option here? Should we put it in Desktop?
> > 
> > I'd say the right solution is for gnome-system-tools to grok the Debian
> > ppp configuration and not wimp out by using wvdial.  This shouldn't be
> > *too* difficult as g-s-t is designed to be pluggable.
> > 
> A GTK+/PyGTK UI to pppconf would be a nice hoary goal.
> 
> Scott
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