On Montag, 16. Dezember 2013, 18:07:43 wrote Jan Engelhardt:
On Monday 2013-12-16 16:21, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I believe there are still people using modems, but I doubt they read here.
Modem Manager can support modems.
Well, I never understood what smpppd job was. I always used wvdial directly.
An abstraction perhaps? For ISDN, I remember using `isdnctrl dial ippp0` rather than wvdial. And for PPPoE, starting pppd itself was usually enough since the line was already open.
yes, it was our backend server, which needed root permissions for the GUI front-ends (called kinternet back then). Basically to avoid that the GUI need to run as root. So similar to NetworkManager approach later on, but focused on modems and ISDN. -- Adrian Schroeter email: adrian@suse.de SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org