[Novices] Ubuntu/Gnome/dialer

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:43:16 -0500, greenproc  wrote:

>Mark Bystry wrote:
>>> Playing with Ubuntu and thinking about novices mostly on dialup.
>>>
>>> I can't seem to find the dialup utility in the menus.  Can anyone
>>> point me to the right critter.  I just wanted to look at it.

>> i qualify as a novice. been using ubuntu for a week. isn't the dial-up
>> in the "networking" dialog? still new to gnome too. it's in the third
>> pull down from the top and then it's something like system tools or
>> something. same spot that you configure wireless i believe.
>> 
>Yes, one of the ways you can configure network interfaces in gnome
>(ubuntu) would be using 'System' -> 'Administration' -> 'networking'.
>>From the command line, the same tool can be launched as 'gksu
>network-admin'.
>
>Mark, does a modem show up for you in the "networking / network-admin"
>tool?  I've never configured a modem in linux before, but I think that
>the kppp or gnome-ppp tools may give you the option to "add a modem".

It seems that items shoe up in window only if they are present. My laptop
has a built-in modem and ethernet, so it always appears. Plop a wireless card 
into a PCMCIA slot, and that appears as well. Otherwise, they are not there.

							Regards,
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