Adsl connection tool

[Yokonakis]

Hi all, I'm a newbie and I'v a couple of question for you about MDK9.2:

 

- There is no adsl connection tool (I mean, a graphical one, like the gui of Kppp for 56k connections) and there is no easy way to discover those two scripts (adsl-start and adsl-stop). I discovered them after a lot of reading on two or three forums. Now this is very strange: how is a newbie supposed to undesrtand that that's the only way to connect to the internet? I think that using those scripts isn't as fast as clicking on a "connect" button, is it? Why didn't they include a simple connection tool? I've looked around for one and I've found kdsl, kpppoe and tkpppoe.

 

- Kdsl seems a nice project, but it stops during the 'make' process saying that it's been created with a too recent version of QTdesigner (it needs 3.2, mine is 3.1). I've tried to edit some .ui files, opening and saving them with QTdesigner 3.1 or editing by hand with a text editor, but it didn't work.

 

- Kpppoe is a bit old but it should work. Anyway, it says it needs libpng.so.2. When I try to install the latest libpng it says that it's already installed.

 

- TKppoe (which is a frontend to rp-pppoe) is the only one that works, but it doesen't include a "send to tray" option to minimize it (and a couple of little flashing monitors in the tray would be very useful, to me).

 

Now I'm stuck. I think that it's annoying to open up a shell and type su > password > adsl-start everytime I need to connect. TKpppoe seems to help, but I would really like to have the option to minimize it in the tray (like kppp does).

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks for your help, I'm really working hard to learn how to use Linux and discard closed-source OS's and software. It's gonna take a long time, but I'm not afraid.

 

Ciao,

 

Yokonakis

 

P.S. Hope you understand what I wrote, I'm italian and my english is not so good.

[Yokonakis]

25 views in two days, no answers. This makes me think.

 

- Are we all stuck beacuse there's nothing we can do to "fix" this thing?

 

- Are you all wondering what the hell was I trying to say? It makes sense, to me, even if I agree that my english sounds a bit funny. Should I try with french? Let me advise you: when I try to speak french, people think I'm affected by some weird mental disease. :lol:

 

Ciao!

Edited March 15, 2004 by Yokonakis

[chris z]

mandrake control center (MCC for short) and look under one of the menus for DrakConnect. (not at my MDK box right now but i think it's under "system". choose the "wizard" option, fill in the blanks as you go (isp provider, connection type, user name, password, etc.) apply settings, connect. note, sometimes for whatever reason, you have to choose connect, then disconnect, then connect again once you have your settings in place. to have internet connect on start up, in MCC, go to system->services & check internet at start up box. to connect manually, in terminal as root type the following.....

 

to connect:

adsl-start

 

to check status:

adsl-status

 

to disconnect:

adsl-stop

 

that should get ya goin'.

 

Chris

Edited March 15, 2004 by chris z

[Yokonakis]

First of all, thank you for answering. :)

 

I already knew how to set-up a connection, how to connect at startup and how to connect via terminal (I wrote it in the first post). What I am pointing out is that Mandrake does not include a graphical tool to connect to the internet (something like KPPP, but for pppoe adsl connections). It is weird, isn't it? If you want one, you have to install it by yourself.

I was wondering how do the MDK users connect to the internet; do they all use 'adsl-start' or do they configure their system to connect at startup? Both ways fix the problem, but that's not a good solution. There should be a simple icon you can click to connect to the internet (like in windoze) and once you're connected it should minimize itself in the tray (that's what I meant with "two little flashing monitors" in the first post).

 

Anyway, kdsl doesn't compile on my machine, kpppoe doesn't work and tkpppoe does not minimize: is there anything else? Any other connection tool that looks like KPPP?

 

Thanks.

 

Ciao!

Edited March 15, 2004 by Yokonakis

[chris z]

hmmm....... as far as i know, there isn't any thing like what you want available. i could be wrong though. :unsure: i never really thought about such an app/or connection method. i Googled a bit for ya, but came up with nuthin' short of making a desktop shortcut to KPPP, but that doesn't help much. i suppose you could always write some kind of script, make it executable, then make that as a shortcut, but you still wouldn't get any minimized icon in the tray. so, sorry, that's about as much input that i can offer right now.

 

Chris

[Yokonakis]

I think I'll wait for the release of MDK 10 in may and then use Kdsl on KDE3.2.

Thanks anyway chris, you've been very kind. :)

 

Now let's hunt for a new trouble to mess things up! :lol:

 

Ciao!