On 2003-03-10(Mon) 02:38:34 -0400, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > Don't bother with gnome-ppp. Use wvdial, it works just fine and it is > > very easy to configure. That's what I ended up using when I was stuck > > with a modem. > > Only problem is, wvdial is not installed by default (not even in > rpmsrate), and has no menu entry. > > So it won't help new users to get connected, and it's hard to get > technical support when you've just reformatted your only machine and you > can't connect to the net =(
I'd say, there's no (or almost no) equivalent thing as kppp under GNOME. My guess is, almost all GNOME core developers have permanent connection, and they never looked back and see the need of a modem dialer :-/ Actually I'd suggest gnome-network be removed from cooker, it's just a bunch of dead code :-) Abel > Jean-Michel -- Abel Cheung GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc
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