Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:11:48 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Istvan_Gabor?= <suseuser04@lajt.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD Message-ID: <2e9bf002.29c01170.5050d064.67ae@lajt.hu> In-Reply-To: <20120911132622.GA2102@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <6cf057a0.48cac116.504f0146.1805c@lajt.hu> <20120911145607.172592eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120911132622.GA2102@tiny.Sisis.de>
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2012. szeptember 11. 15:26 napon Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> írta: > El día Tuesday, September 11, 2012 a las 02:56:07PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: > > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:15:50 +0200, suseuser04@lajt.hu wrote: > > > Hello FreeBSD users: > > > > > > I am new to FreeBSD. I've been using openSUSE for 8 years but would > > > like to try something different. > > > I have installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE from DVD and configured > > > KDE3. I also configured DSL (pppoe) connection that automatically > > > connects the computer to the network. > > > In openSUSE I have kinternet (and its alternative qinternet), an application > > > which incorporates into KDE system tray and indicates whether network > > > connection is active or not. It can also be used by the desktop user to > > > disconnect and connect from/to the network (eg. for getting new dynamic > > > IP address or test downloaded web pages offline). > > > Is there a similar program in FreeBSD? I could not find kinternet or qinternet > > > in ports database or by googling. > > > > I'm not aware of a tool that integrates both with KDE _and_ > > the FreeBSD operating system. KDE is quite Linux-centric, > > and FreeBSD is a different operating system. ... > > FreeBSD (as Linux) is a OS, while KDE is just a desktop which works fine > on FreeBSD and SuSE; I'm using kde-3.5.10 and tested kde-4.x (which > did not do what I expected; that's why I stay with 3.5.10 which is now > unmaintained, but still compiling as a port; > > the OP did not say in which KDE version he used 'kinternet', but it > seems that the component is not in the port; the best way would be to > check in openSUSE what 'kinternet' is (i.e. where the sources come from) > and check in the FreeBSD KDE project the status of a port; > > matthias > Matthias, Polytropon: 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's possible at all. 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. In openSUSE kinternet is a frontend for smpppd package, and smpppd requires ppp. I will try to look into it whether smpppd can work with FreeBSD ppp. Thanks, Istvan
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