[wellylug] easy dialup settings?

[Jonathan Harker]

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

Hopefully, this might work:
Put the following lines in /etc/rc.local or similar:

  slmodemd /dev/slamr0 &
  ln -s /dev/slamr0 /dev/modem

Then twiddle with kppp so that it uses /dev/modem and has the ISP settings in 
it so that it is ready to go. Then all she has to do is double click the kppp 
icon and push the connect button.

Cheers,
J