Hello all,
new Debian user here, hope somebody can help.
With no help, and asking no questions until now - but extensive use of Google!
- I have managed to partition my PC's hard drive, download the 5.0.3 net-inst
ISO image, install Debian on my new partition, find the firmware for my ADSL
modem so that I could get pon and poff working, then use 'aptitude' to download
just about everything else I wanted, or thought I wanted: nvidia drivers, xorg,
kfce, slim, iceweasel, adobe-flashplugin, ntfs-3g, alsa-utils, and sharp
Microsoft fonts.
All of the above is working, including pon and poff, but I have a question as
follows. (I am surprised I haven't been able to find the answer to this using
Google / the Debian website / aptitude etc., so if I am missing something
obvious please go easy on me!)
At the moment I have to start an xterm and explicitly type 'pon' before I can
use any internet-based programs such as iceweasel or even ping. My question
is, is there any way I can get iceweasel (or ping) to cause a GUI dialog to
appear, asking me if I want to establish the ADSL connection, if it is not up?
(In other words, the way it works in Windows?) Said GUI dialog would
preferably work on top of kfce, which I like.
I HAVE tried adding the line 'demand' to my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file.
After doing that if I run pon and then plog -f, I can see messages up to the
point where it tells me the local and remote IP addresses, with nothing after
that - presumably because pppd is waiting for some 'demand' before it connects.
However, when I then try iceweasel, it still says 'site not found' and and
nothing more appears in the plog -f output. Similarly, when I try ping, it
still says unknown host.
Just a reminder, even if this were working, this would still not be 100% of
what I am after - I would like to know if there is a way that I can be prompted
if anything wants to connect to the internet - preferably via a GUI dialog that
works on top of kfce. However I would still be interested to know why the
'demand' line in my PPP provider file does not seem to have the desired effect.
Thank you in advance.
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