Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Leon Goldstein]

dan wrote:

>On Tuesday 19 August 2008 17:26:30 Leon Goldstein wrote:
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>>The reviewer of "Lenny" included some appreciated notes on hacking kppp
>>so it works for user.  I'll give the procedure a go, and maybe I'll be
>>able to get my Debian 4.0 to dialup as a user, eventually.
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>Personally, I never did care much for kppp when I tried it some years ago when 
>we were on dialup. I was always a hassle to set up. I switched to wvdial which 
>(I thought) was much easier to configure and it just worked.
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>Kind Regards,
>Dan
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My first experience with configuring kppp was with Caldera eDesk 2.4.  I 
remember I was apprehensive, but I just followed the instructions in the 
excellent printed manual that came with eDesk 2.4 and it worked.  From 
then on I found no difficulty with Kppp (other than, as I mentioned, 
with Corel Linux -  a Debian based distro - and Debian 4.0) but rather 
found configuring Netscape/Mozilla to set up e-mail much more elaborate.

Libranet Debian was also a delight, owing to its Adminmenu - a 
collection of Perl scripts - that had a simple and elegant  dialup
configuration. (Sigh)

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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