Re: Wharfable ISP dialer?
Doug Alcorn (alcornd@earthlink.net)
04 Apr 1999 22:53:09 -0400
Dave LaMothe <dlamothe@generation.net> writes:
> On 02-Apr-99 Ed Barth wrote:
> > What's the best Wharfable app I should use to establish a ppp connection
> > with my ISP? Currently using netcfg to make the connection but would
> > like the ease of a one-click Wharf button to do the same.
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> Just thought I'd supplement the many responses to this question with a
> different approach. I'm assuming you use RedHat since netcfg is that RedHat
> tool that's part of the RH control-panel. When I first tried to configure
> my ppp stuff it was immediately obvious that RedHat does things very
> differently that other distros, presumably to cater to the functionning of
> 'netcfg'; the scripts were not where the generic HOWTO's said they'd be, and
> when I found the scripts they were far more complex that the generic examples.
> Moreover, they all began with a warning such as "You should be using netcfg to
[snip]
> change this stuff" or something to that effect. That was in the RH 4.2 days.
> With RH 5.2 little has changed in this regard. Also, by default, netcfg
> requires root permission.
>
> (rant)
> Sorry for the 'verboseness' of this, but often non-RedHat users (and RedHat
> users alike) overlook the fact that RedHat often differs in how it is set up.
[snip some more]
Just to put in my $0.02, all this is correct. Red Hat does (of
course) do things a little differently. The scripts they use are must
more convoluted than the standard scripts. However, I just said,
"screw it." I started using wvdial to connect to the 'Net. Works
like a champ. Red Hat is oblivious to what I am doing. wvdial is
easy to setup and once right, always works. To make any user able to
connect, just make pppd setuid.
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