setting up ppp using wvdial?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> redhat-control-network &
> 
> The Gnome ppp dialer which used wvdial (as far as I know) was never
> ported to GTK+2 or Gnome 2.2.
> 
> This looks like an attempt to create gppp for Gnome 2.2 but it's in
> the pre-alpha stage.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gppp/
> 
> While most have DSL or some type of broadband network connection,
> there is still a need for a gnome ppp dialer on laptops!
> 
> For the time being you can use redhat-control-network and the command
> wvdial to start and stop your dialup connection.  Ctl+c to kill wvdial
> in a terminal.  Nasty, but it works.
> 
> 
> jay
As far as I know the program that configures networks is called:
redhat-config-network

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