on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:41:36PM +0700, David Sudjiman (davidsudjiman@yahoo.com) wrote:
> I leave my office for a week holiday and planned to get back to it with
> success story about diald implementation next week.
>
> Currently, on my toshiba tecra8100 laptop:
> - - Installed diald
> - - my wvdial works
> - - my pon/poff works
>
> I already read about Diald-HOWTO but I don't get the idea how can I
> implement it as the HOWTO showed different
> files for diald.option, diald.conf, etc.
>
> I read PPP-HOWTO as well but I just get confused so I read Debian
> Reference (or was it Debian FAQ) about using my PPP to work. Well, It
> works with pon/poff.
>
> I don't know where to start with my implementation and what error file(s)
> should I bring here. I search (just for a while) about diald implemtation
> on debian but just found a few.
>
> Can I get a good URL or is there somebody here able to advice this newbie
> about diald implementation.
I believe that the 'demand' option for pppd will give you equivalent
functionality to diald at rather less complexity. I messed with diald
way back in the dark ages (1997/98) and never got it working
satisfactorially. I largely use manually triggered pppd (pon/poff) now.
Peace.
--
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What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
What doesn't kill you makes you stranger.
-- Karsten M. Self, misreading as usual, San Marcos Pass Rd., 1988
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