[wellylug] easy dialup settings?

Centurion Computer Technology Ltd centurion at paradise.net.nz
Sat Nov 22 17:20:35 NZDT 2003


kppp?

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 15:12, James Fitzsimons wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to think of a way that would enable my wife (not Linux
> savvy) to be able to dial and disconnect from our ISP.
> 
> Ideally what I would like is an icon I can put on her kde desktop which
> would work they same way as a dialup shortcut in windows.
> 
> At the moment I have to go through the following commands to dial out:
> - su to root
> - slmodemd /dev/slamr0 // this starts a user mode daemon for my winmodem
> in my laptop
> - ppp start // actually calls the ISP
> 
> I would like to avoid my wife having to open terminal windows and change
> user to root etc... as aside from the obvious risks to the system, she
> will probably freak out ;-)
> 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
> James Fitzsimons
> 
> 
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