Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:52:20AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Thu, 03 Aug: > > Hi, > > > > Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the > > ADSL. > > I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line > > bas

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-05 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:54, Oded Arbel wrote: > > Most modern linux distributions have a network configuration wizard that > supports setting all kinds of connections, including DSL. Any idea if there's something like that on Debian? > otherwise you > can probably tinker around with kppp t

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 19:32 +0300, Aviram Jenik wrote: > Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. > I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based > and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. > > I googled for a while, but

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Fri, 04 Aug: > On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Ira Abramov wrote: > > 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'. ahh, that makes more sense. ok then, back to my first ide

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-04 Thread Aviram Jenik
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 in

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Thu, 03 Aug: > Hi, > > Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. > I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based > and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. kde and gnome both let y

Re: GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-03 Thread David Suna
I have been using tkpppoe on a RedHat 9 system (GNOME) for a couple of years. I had to download the source and recompile it to get it to work with my Alcatel Speedtouch modem to connect to actcom. This was all quite a long time ago but under the old adage of "If it ain't broke don't fix it" I

GUI program for pppoe

2006-08-03 Thread Aviram Jenik
Hi, Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. I googled for a while, but couldn't find anything relevant (except for a project that