Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I made the mistake of installing Fedora 15 with the GUI. This only told me that my modem was "unplugged." And I could not figure out how to drop out of the G

Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Andre Robatino
T.C. Hollingsworth gmail.com> writes: > Personally, I find wvdial to be the easiest way to configure and dial > modems from the command line in Linux. It's usually installed in > default Fedora configurations (but possibly not the minimal one). If > it's not installed you may run "yum instal

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:02 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and > then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I'm pretty sure you can do it with NetworkManager if you are in graphica mode - by adding a

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
Lars Eighner wrote: > My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and > then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. > > I made the mistake of installing Fedora 15 with the GUI. This only told me > that my modem was "unplugged." And I c

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:02 -0500 (CDT) > Lars Eighner wrote: > >> My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and >> then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. > > I'm pretty sure you c

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
> > If you are used to a more old fashioned X environmen you may find that > > adding the XFCE or LXDE group to your mininal install gives you a desktop > > environment which is rather more friendly to the 'I'll just start a > > shell' universe. > > I'm aiming for fvwm2, which is the most GUI I ca

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
- Original Message - From: Lars Eighner To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:37 PM Subject: Hardware modem My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I made the