Re: [gnome-love] ALInex - ADSL Modems - Portugal

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Luis Rodrigues <l17173 alunos uevora pt> wrote:
> 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.

I used an ADSL USB modem in the UK with AOL.
I got it working perfectly with EciAdsl
(http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/)

However, connecting to the internet always required a
root user command (issued in terminal, or with a
gksudo launcher on the panel). I didn't work out how
to integrate it better into the system (so it would
connect automatically on startup, or on USB plug-in).
Hope that helps.


                
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