This one time, at band camp, Bruno Boettcher said: > Hello! > > lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i > am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... > > thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... > > since i nearly don't use the gnome stuff that is hanging around my > desktop, i thought that maybe there would be that sort of thing lying > allready around as a panel applet.... > > but no luck, the ppp monitor seems ot work only with normal RTC > modems.... > > keeping allways a tail -f /var/log/messages open is cumbersome, and > there are the ip-up and ip-down scripts that could send a signal to an > app.... > > > so is there allready something out that does this? > > -- > ciao bboett
I think the GNOME modem lights applet is able to be configured to watch
different devices and lock files - try the 'advanced' tab (from memory,
not using a modem on this box).
HTH,
Steve
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