On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 11:38 +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: > I finally been able to move my parents to Ubuntu, after much struggles :) > > But I was quite amazed to find out that the simplest thing called Internet > Dialer found in Windows doesn't exist, there is no shinny GUI, only command > line scripts and commands.
There was recently a gnubies-il thread with the same problem, which appears to be quite common if Google is to be trusted: Ubuntu - which otherwise is a great desktop operating system with shiny and usable GUIs for almost anything - is sorely lacking a normal user interface to broadband dialing (DSL and cable). All other major distros come with one (I recently had to use Fedora 7's and it was almost perfect, and I know Mandriva's which I used many times before would be perfect if it was only slightly less ugly). Currently to get Ubuntu to dial through DSL you need to run pppoe-conf from the command line, and then use the command line commands pon <provider> and poff <provider>. One can conceivably setup custom application launchers for both on the desktop's panel, and in combination with some network monitor applet that is setup to only monitor ppp0, it can even be a usable setup. > Anyone with a GUI that does PPP or PPPOE? See here https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/pppoeconfig-gtk-frontend for the launchpad blueprint for this problem (can't right now find the bug ticket for this, and its not linked from the blueprint page). The original RP-PPPOE package linked from the above page, contains a gui for controlling RP-PPPOE. I don't know how well it works with Ubuntu's (Debian's) idea of pppoe dialling. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
