PPPOE tool

[Madhurya Kakati]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:33 PM, James Tyrer <jrtyrer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 05/24/10 00:51, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:47 AM, James Tyrer<jrtyrer at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>>> On 05/21/10 19:35, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
>>>> HI,
>>>> I use the latest version of kde on archlinux. I use pppoe-start in
>>>> konsole to connect via pppoe mode. Is there and kde tool to do that??
>>>> Like in ubuntu(gnome) i right clicked on network on upper panel to
>>>> configure and connect via pppoe. Is there any way to do that same in
>>>> kde?
>>>
>>> AFAIK, there is nothing in KDE-4 although you can use NetworkManager and
>>> the GNOME applet for it which is compatible with KDE.
>>
>> you mean nothing?? o_O
>>
> Although there is nothing *in* KDE-4, there is KNetworkManager which is
> a KDE front end for NetworkManager but it is still under development (it
> is in ExtraGear) and not yet included in KDE.  Although, I think that
> some distros have packages for it.  If your distro has a package for it,
> you can try it if you want but remember that it should be considered
> Beta software.  My recommendation would be to use the start up scripts
> unless you need to connect and disconnect your PPPoE connection.  My
> experience with NetworkManager has not been 100% although I did manage
> to get it to work.  You might have PolicyKit configuration issues.
>
> You still need to have your start up scripts correctly configured for
> your NIC since there isn't a static device for eth<n> -- something has
> to tell the Kernel that it exists.  To use NetworkManager, the start up
> scripts have to find, but not start the NIC.
>
> --
> James Tyrer
>
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O.K thanks for the help. :)
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