From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 19:21:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05181 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ida.net (mail.ida.net [204.228.203.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05152 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from muck@ida.net) Received: from falcon.hinterlands.com (tc-pt2-47.ida.net [208.141.181.104]) by mail.ida.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA20565; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:21:38 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:20:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Mike Jackson X-Sender: muck@falcon.hinterlands.com To: Gilad Rom cc: Alex , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <361A888B.1C33FE15@ein-hashofet.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Gilad Rom wrote: > Alex wrote: > > > > CVSup has it's own GUI, and while not for iij-ppp, KDE has a nice little > > dialer that works with the version of pppd included with fbsd. > > > > CVSup does not have a GUI in that sense, it is merely a simple status > display, > And since I know how much trouble newbies are having with supfiles and > selection, > a small configuration tool with help and such will greatly reduce the > number of people > with difficulties. What about ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz ? That seems to work pretty well for creating a supfile. > > Same goes for ijppp, The fact remains that alot of people are using it, > It is alot easier to setup than pppd and generally one of good things > We here at FreeBSD have that these guys dont. > Im not talking fully blown dialers with accounting information and such. > Just a simple tool which you will only need to run once, to write down > your > ISP's phone number/name server, After all, you DO pick up all of this > stuff > after a few weeks of using FreeBSD. There is a somewhat outdated ppp setup script at http://www.ida.net/users/muck Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message