Re: gnome-ppp [was: Re: the future of GNOME Applets]

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:43 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> HAL love would be good - you currently have to manually select your
> modem.  It would be a simple change, I imagine, to make it query the
> list of available modems and provide a drop-down selection vs just
> entering the device path.

Last time I looked HAL didn't handle serial devices, or does it these
days?

Scanning ports and sending AT to see what happens sounds like a good
idea but I seem to remember my UPS getting rather angry when I thought
it was a modem.

Ross
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