On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > BUT I'm having one show-stopper that keeps me from switching over. > Gnome doesn't seem to have a nice modem manager like KPPP (they > have a modem lights applet, but it doesn't do any modem or > connection config, so is pretty losing by comparison). On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:29:55PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hmmm. My Helix-Gnome setup includes v 1.2.3 of "Modem Lights Applet" which > is dialing my ISP quite nicely. As Tim indicated, Modem Lights Applet "does" have connect/disconnect capabilities. I believe it either ties into pon/poff, or more recently with Debian, ifup ppp0, ifdown ppp0. Switch over or no, you should learn how to edit your ppp scripts by hand anyway. You should have a number of /etc/ppp/peer/* files for the different servers you connect to and a number of differnet /etc/chatscripts/* that correspond with those /etc/ppp/peer/* files. Likewise, learn how to add your passwords to /etc/ppp/pam-secrets file. If you're using Debian, you can tie in the ppp? interface names to different call providers using the /etc/network/interfaces configuration file. IOW, you're not learning how to use your system if you're relying on KPPP. If you're using Linuxconf, you're submitting yourself to yet another crutch. Weene yourself off of these tools, as they will stop you from "switching over." If you're still hell-bent on using a graphical button to call your provider, I'm sure you can find something out there. -- Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001110/c9760747/attachment.pgp