Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
Thorsten Manegold writes: > kppp does not like to have "lock" set in /etc/ppp/options. I'd call that a bug in kppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-16 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! AFAIK kppp does not like to have "lock" set in /etc/ppp/options. Commenting it out made kppp work for me. HTH Thorsten Manegold On 14-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> How about x-isp or kppp (for

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "M" == MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> but KPPP refuses to do the job. XISP is nice, but I couldn't get M> it to dial over 38,000kbps for me for some reason. WVDial is what M> I use now. It's not Both are frontends to pppd, so as long as the same options are used, the result should

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Patrick Kirk writes: > Why not write a one line script called dial aol which causes wvdail to > connect to aol for you, put this in /bin directory and put a shortcut to > this script on the desktop? Why not just a shortcut to pon? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread MallarJ
While I don't connect to AOL directly - I go thru my ISP - this is basically what I do when I need a connection. -Jay

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread Patrick Kirk
Why not write a one line script called dial aol which causes wvdail to connect to aol for you, put this in /bin directory and put a shortcut to this script on the desktop? Then clicking on this will cause wvdial to connect to aol for you:) Patrick On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:12:53AM -0400, [EM

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
> > > YMMV - I tried KPPP (I do have KDE installed) and could never get a > successfull connection. I can dial using any other means without problems, in the kppp help they say to remove a directory to make it running, perphaps : /etc/ppp

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How about x-isp or kppp (for KDE users)? If you use x-isp (you can search > "xisp" on Yahoo for the URL) you will first need to install xforms. > > I might have the URL for x-isp. I will send it to you

RE: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > How about x-isp or kppp (for KDE users)? If you use x-isp (you can search > "xisp" on Yahoo for the URL) you will first need to install xforms. > > I might have the URL for x-isp. I will send it to you if I find it. > kppp is for KDE but xisp will work wit

GNOME: Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PK" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PK> Did you find GNOME easy to set up? If you want to try GNOME, add the folowing line to your sources.list and use apt to install it. deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main We are currently in progre

RE: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: > xisp is packaged for Debian thanks. I did not know that. xforms is also available in a Debian package. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

RE: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 May, Pollywog wrote about "RE: packages for dialing isp" > > On 13-May-99 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >> does anyone know where I can find a small X app so I can click to dial and >> hangup and maybe see some options like choosing which ISP to dial, connect >&g

RE: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > does anyone know where I can find a small X app so I can click to dial and > hangup and maybe see some options like choosing which ISP to dial, connect > speed etc? How about x-isp or kppp (for KDE users)? If you use x-isp (you can search "xisp" on Yahoo for

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-13 Thread Patrick Kirk
There is a tcl version of wvdial which seems to handle multiple isp accounts very well and runs in X. Did you find GNOME easy to set up? Patrick