On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:02 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner <topper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and > then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I'm pretty sure you can do it with NetworkManager if you are in graphica mode - by adding a connection and so on but the other way is to set it up by hand via /etc/ppp which is the same basic ppp setup as BSD use - same ppp dameon package and so on. > I made the mistake of installing Fedora 15 with the GUI. This only told me > that my modem was "unplugged." And I could not figure out how to drop out > of the GUI to a command line terminal. So I overwrote the installation with Start a terminal application or hit ctrl-alt-f2/f3/f4/.. for virtual consoles. Setting the run level to 3 also gets you a more "traditional" environment where you have to 'startx' to get X services. If you are used to a more old fashioned X environmen you may find that adding the XFCE or LXDE group to your mininal install gives you a desktop environment which is rather more friendly to the 'I'll just start a shell' universe. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
