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Sandgroper wrote:
> "Will Kemp" <will@xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote in message 
> news:bugfk.19755$5U6.12991@newsfe08.ams2...
>> Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>>> In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:15:56 +1000
>>> Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote:
>>>> It's a fecking cow due to the fact that network manager was written by
>>>> ethernet/wireless bigots who wouldn't know a PPP session if it did the
>>>> nasty with their dog.
>>> This is an Ubuntu special I take it?
>> Nah, NetworkManager is a gnome thing. It's what i've used to control 
>> networking for ages. It's had its buggy moments, but generally it's really 
>> good. It automatically connects you to wireless networks you've been 
>> connected to previously and if you plug in an ethernet cable, it detects 
>> that and kills the wireless and switches over to ethernet. That behaviour 
>> can be a bit annoying - as, sometimes, i want both.
>>
>> But it doesn't do serial modems - apart from anything else, there's no way 
>> to detect when the phone line's connected and dial-up automatically. Of 
>> course, you don't want your computer dialling automatically like that, 
>> anyway.
>>
>> Fedora also includes the old standard network control stuff - so you can 
>> kill NetworkManager and use that for modem connections.
>>
> 
> I used networkmanager in FC 3 for my modem connection , but it was 
> cumbersome and you didn't know if you were connected or your connect speed.
> What I did was set up KPPP in Gnome and that worked really great and it 
> showed they you were connected and at what speed.

Strewth! FC3!!! That's virtually in the realms of prehistory now! Fedora 
(and Linux in general) has moved forward dramatically since those days - 
and so has NetworkManager. It works well nowadays.

I've had a bit of trouble with it on my current laptop, but i think that 
was a kernel problem. Anyway, it's fixed now (v0.7).

However, i don't think you're talking about the same NetworkManager - as 
it doesn't do dialup connections (and i don't remember it being in 
fedora back in those days).

Dialup connections (in Gnome, at least) are configured with 
system-config-network, which you get to from the main menu -> System -> 
Administration -> Network. It worked perfectly last time i had to 
configure a dialup connection.



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