On Wednesday 04 December 2002 10:33, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 03/12/2002 17:40, Oeystein Olsen typed ... > > > "neat" to set up the modem-connection, and "redhat-control-network" (or > > "neat") to start the connection. You don't have to be root to run > > "redhat-control-network". Just make sure that all users can activate the > > modem when you configure it in neat. Works for me. > > Yes, under RH7.3 the network config. app. was root-only. Certainly a > possibility, only having lost rp3 I not only lose the piece-of-mind > applet showing me up/download/connection activity, but also the net. > conf. monitor (as they were one & the same). I don't think the net. > conf. app. has any built-in feedback. I would like something like that myself, but can do without. > Does it cope with errors like modem not responding, etc., like rp3 > used to? Not really, it just says that it can't activate ppp0 when I've forgotten to plug in the phone. That's the only error I've received, but I hardly ever use a modem anymore, since I got a 2Mb line into my apartment a month ago. -- Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen@astro.uio.no, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
