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

[Luis Rodrigues <l17173 alunos uevora pt>]

> 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.

Our problem is that people use lots os different modems (speedtouch,
icedata, etc) and we would like to create a common framework to
configure them in gnome. 


So we need ideas how to implement this a a way it is usefull for
everyone. 


On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:34 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- 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.

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