From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 09:27:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9052C106564A for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:27:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDA18FC08 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-214-70.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.214.70]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE823CA20; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:26:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q8E9QvVC008072; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:26:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:26:57 +0200 From: Polytropon To: "suseuser04@lajt.hu" Message-Id: <20120914112657.40ec9cd8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <71f9c6ea.47ec7755.5052f33f.8a4e0@lajt.hu> References: <71f9c6ea.47ec7755.5052f33f.8a4e0@lajt.hu> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:27:00 -0000 On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:05:03 +0200, suseuser04@lajt.hu wrote: > Matthias, Polytropon: > > I have answered to your messages using "reply to" but my messages > haven't reached the mailing list. I am posting now my answer in a > new (not reply to) mail. Check your mail client for reply options. I'm using Sylpheed here and have: - Reply - Reply to all - Reply to sender - Reply to mailing list I assume this is decided upon the headers From:, Reply-To:, and Cc:. I don't see a MUA declared in your mail headers, so whatever you use, check for such reply options. Even "old-fashioned" tools like (al)pine have then. :-) > Thank you for your answers. > I am using KDE 3.5.10. I would like to use FreeBSD as a desktop machine > for replacing openSUSE if it is possible at all. I don't see a reason why this shouldn't be possible. Many years ago, FreeBSD 4 obsoleted Linux as my home desktop, and I do not regret the choice. Depending on what _you_ actually *do* with your computer, there _may_ be certain "obstacles". > For clarity, I do not need exactly kinternet, I want only an GUI frontend > for pppdial which possibly resides in system tray and can be used to control > network connections. As I said, I've heared of a tool named kppp, and according to the traditional naming convention in KDE (of _that_ time), I assume this is a KDE program for dealing with ppp. Even though networking is done at OS level which doesn't have such a tight integration with desktop environments as this is done in Linux (as the "big three" desktop environments are quite Linux-centric), ppp can be invoked by the user (if he has been granted the required permissions by the system administrator). If a KDE program can "communicate" with the ppp command line tool, it should work. > In openSUSE kinternet is a frontend for smpppd package. > smpppd requires ppp. I will try to look into it whether smpppd can > work with FreeBSD's ppp. That sounds like an interesting approach. Good luck! I know that's basically possible. Many years ago, I wrote a Tcl/Tk-based frontend with buttons to enable / disable the connection, see the status and the elapsed time. If that has been possible, chances are good that KDE in its much advanced manner has something comparable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...