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Goya
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003
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 Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject: gnome and dialout (modem) |
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hi there,
i am just switching from xp / outlook express to gentoo / gnome / evolution on my acer travelmate notebook. until now everything went really good, even got my realtek 8139 nic and the winmodem working! :)
enough blah-blah, here my question:
is there a good & working dialout-tool (& ebuild) like kdial for gnome available? currently i am only able to connect by using wvdial before starting gnome. the latest thread i found about that is from january and this one was quite confusing...
thanks for helping in advance. |
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Joined: 30 Apr 2002
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Location: Lexington KY
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I use the gnome modem panel applet. (I'm not at my computer at the moment, so my memory may be slightly incorrect at what I'm about to say..)
In the gnome modem applet preferences, you have to go to the third tab and change the device from /dev/modem to whatever your modem is, e.g. /dev/ttyS0 (if you have /dev/modem correctly linking to your modem you can skip this).
Next, you need to change the connect/disconnect commands in the gnome modem applet preferences. Change "pppon" to "wvdial &" and change "pppoff" to "killall wvdial"
| Code: | connect: wvdial &
disconnect: killall wvdial |
If you are able to run wvdial as a normal user, you can now simply click on the button on the gnome modem panel applet and you should connect to the net. If you log in as root to run wvdial, do this next section...
When you run visudo, you will be editing the sudo config file. You need to enable yourself to run sudo without a password. Read the comments in the config file and it will explain how--I am not home so I can't tell you what to do here, unforunately. I think it is something along the lines of allowing users in the wheel group to run sudo without a password, then add yourself to the wheel group.
To add yourself to the wheel group
| Code: | | textedit /etc/group |
Where textedit is whatever text editor you like to use, e.g. vim. Find the line beginning with "wheel" and add your user name to the end; if there is already one or more usernames listed on that line, put a comma before your username when you add it.
Now go back to the gnome panel applet preferences and change the two connect/disconnect commands to
| Code: | connect: sudo wvdial &
disconnect: sudo killall wvdial |
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Finally, you should be able to click on the gnome modem applet button to connect to the net. |
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