On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhia...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...]
> You know, sometimes all this process is what makes people shy off of *BSD. I > am a diehard lover of FreeBSD, but the few times I have installed Linux on my > laptop, this whole process was a breeze... well, not quite, but not as > difficult as it is in FreeBSD. Luckily, I use WiFi more than I use 3G, so > it's never quite bothered me. Even now, I just want to see how easy it can be > on PC-BSD/FreeBSD, with a GUI to boot, if there is, but I do not feel it is > such a big necessity for me, because I have D-Link DIR-825 which can use this > modem on it's USB port and allow me to use 3G. > It used to be like that in Linux as well. It's only until recently that the netowrk manager app supports 3g modems. The problem is when these graphical apps fail you have virtually no way to see what's going on, just plug and pray. If you get the tty, using Wvdial is actuall much easier than any other dialing/ppp tool I've ever used. So even on Linuxes with NM applet and 3g modem support I would use Wvdial, and on FBSD especially! wvdial is much more robust than the nm apps, IMHO. -- Alejandro Imass _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
