[Novices] Ubuntu/Gnome/dialer

[Brock Inglehart]

On Friday 10 March 2006 2:52 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> 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,
> 							---> RGB <-

Wait, wait, wait folks.  I was asking about the dialer because I was making 
the assumption that Ubuntu wouldn't deal with the typical Winmodem any better 
than any other Linux distro does.  But along with a stand alone modem, you 
still need a dialer thinger.  So, are you saying that Ubuntu doesn't come 
with that utility built in as Kubuntu or Suse does? 	

Brock						-- 
>
> _______________________________________________
> Novices mailing list
> Novices at kalamazoolinux.org
> http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/novices