[kde-linux] kppp

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2010-01-01, Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Friday 01 January 2010 17:29:37 schrieb falkengeist at surfbest.net:
> > Not sure if this is the correct forum or not.  I couldn't find
> > anything specifically dealing with kppp.  If I'm in the wrong place,
> > please give me some direction.  If I'm in the right place, please
> > give me some help.
> 
> I'll try :)
> - so here goes:
> I've been using xandros on my eeepc701 for awhile and found it cumbersome,
>  to be honest (far outdated kde, crippeled konqueror, ridiculous software
>  repo...), so I replaced it with debian lenny, and all is ok :)
> but that's not the question, in essence.
> so, as to the modem/kppp issue, I can say from memory (long time ago, that
>  I last used a serial modem...) that I had often problems with kppp.
> I tried wvdial then (which comes with a handy autoconfig utility:
>  wvdialconf), which always worked perfectly, so I never went back to kppp.
> you may want to give it a try, it should be available for all distros you
> mentioned.
> there is even a qt frontend (qt3) for it, afaik (qtwvdial).

While KPPP has always worked for me, I'd also used wvdial back when dial-up 
was my main internet connectivity, mostly because it has this really nice dial 
on-demand feature making you almost forget the dialing step completely.

Still weird that one set of modem commands would work on one system and not on 
the other.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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