Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question
--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Maybe I missed something in a previous post. If you
> don't have
> ethernet, then how are you connecting to the dsl
> modem? USB?
Yes USB to ADSL modem to POTS. I think your suggestion of buying a router was still valid however, I found several recommendations to do this when I was Googling to find out how to get pon and poff working. However I was and am determined that I shouldn't need to buy any more hardware than Windows has needed, and I felt vindicated in this when I did get pon and poff working.
With that I now have almost everything I want, so the case for buying more hardware is even weaker now than it was when I started out. I could even put 'pon' in the initrc file (or whatever it's called these days), or perhaps in users' .profiles, so that nobody would need to type it explicitly. However I would prefer to get the 'demand' feature working - since it is supposed to work, and it is cooler - and I also still like the idea of having a GUI dialog. Maybe it's because I have used Windows for too long and have developed Stockholm syndrome, but I like the way it lets me see, and approve, connection attempts.
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