Re: PPP Dial up tool

["Carlos Garnacho" <garnacho www tuxerver net>]

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:47:01 +0000, Ross Burton wrote
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 16:08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:23:22PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > 
> > > gnome-system-tools has a tool to configure network configurations, and
> > > PPP is one of the available types.  Use that to configure the account
> > > (g-s-t will be in GNOME 2.6 hopefully) and then use the Modem Lights
> > > applet to activate the connection.
> > 
> > g-s-t seems to be hardcoded to configure wvdial based scripts, which is 
> > mildly unfortunate - /etc/wvdial.conf is generally only readable by 
> > root, and wvdial isn't usually shipped suid (at least not by Debian) so 
> > it doesn't work if you try to connect as a user. g-s-t also has some 
> > strange idea that different providers correspond to different ppp? 
> > interfaces, and so gets upset when it connects to "ppp1" and ppp0 comes 
> > up. But anyway.
> 
> I must be going mad, I swear I used g-s-t to look at my PPP
> configuration in the past.
> 
> You're right, on Debian it still demands wvdial, which is not good.  
> The Debian backend for the networking tools should use the 
> /etc/ppp/* configuration files.

PPP support was done in this way before I joined the project, I think that
this was done to minimize the effort of porting this part to other distros
(the more common is something, the better), but I agree that this should be
distro-specific

> 
> > Modem Lights is bad crack. What we really want is something that is able
> > to use the g-s-t configuration stuff and just does "connect",
> > "disconnect" and reports the current status. I've got code that does the
> > latter, but not the former - working out a sensible way of dealing with
> > the former that will let me work as a user as well would be helpful.
> 
> Agree, it would be great if modem lights used the same backend code 
> as g-s-t to list the available connections, and allowed you to pick what
> PPP connection to dial when you press the button.

I absolutely agree to, I'll work on the PPP stuff, so it might be easy to
access the backends as a user

     Regards

PS: CCing to xavier, as he told in #gnome that he was interested too in
working on a PPP applet

> 
> Ross
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Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>
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