Re: ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Втр, 06/12/2005 в 19:03 +0000, Luis Rodrigues пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Luis Rodrigues and I work at Universidade de Évora in a
> Portuguese Linex based distribution called ALinex (www.alinex.org).
> 
> Since in Portugal many of the people that use Internet access using ADSL
> USB modems we would like to support them on our distribution.
> 
> Network Admin doesn't allow for the configuration of the modems or
> installing the firmware.
> 
> What we want is to have a dialog that shows several types os modems, the
> users chooses the one he has and we write the apropriate scripts, if it
> needs a firmware we would ask the user to enter the location of it.
> 
> We would like to know what is the best way to support this, make a new
> application or change one of the existing ones?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luis Rodrigues
> 
> _

Hi Luis, at least you should look at the Network Manager, surely there
is application that will be suitable for your task. Also Gnome System
Tools might want to have advantage of using thing like you described.

Anyhow you need to suggest this things to maintainers of projects above.