On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Ira Abramov wrote: > I just set machines to dial as soon as the OS comes up and > keep it alive, period.
Me too. But that person has a laptop, and he wants to come home, connect it to the ADSL modem and turn the connection 'on'. Sure, he can buy an ADSL router instead but I think it's silly when connecting to ADSL on Linux is so trivial. > why would you ever want to manually futz around > with that? "Because it's there" > > # apt-cache search ppp|grep -i kde > kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd > That's the first program I checked out - it's for modem dialing, not ADSL. For one, it expects a phone number. - Aviram ================================================================= 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]