On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. Okay, I am finding some useful stuff in "Development Guide" -- which seems odd since I am not a developer. Haven't found the dialer yet. This is especially difficult because BSD can't mount ext4 and I cannot read online documentation in Fedora. >> 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. I'm aiming for fvwm2, which is the most GUI I can stand. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 -- 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
