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Written by shaningcn the 29 Feb 08 at 20:29.
Category: Internet & Networking.
Related project:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Rationale
easy and functional GUI for pppoe pon poff and plog is neaded
Something like a xDSL connection wizard in Windows or PCLinux
so that you can easily set up new connection(s), delete, turn on and off.
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k.y
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:33
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i think both gnome-ppp kppp can do that.
not 100% sure though
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gtarider
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:50
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I fully agree. Yes, on CLI one can use the pppoeconf command. But that is just the point of what shaningcn is suggesting: there is NO GUI to do this. This really should be no problem because in Knoppix and Kanotix this is used for years now.
Unbelievable that this is not introduced in Ubuntu :-(
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knb
wrote on the 13 May 08 at 09:24
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I was nearly done writing a new idea, when I discovered this idea. So I'll comtribute my idea as a comment instead.
make menu item for pppoeconf and pon
There should be an applet / GUI based way to configure ppp connections such as DSL.
Right now it is only possible to configure the access credentials from the command line. Initially, when you want to configure a DSL connection for the first time, You have to type pppoeconf in a terminal, and a wizard with a primitive GUI pops up (made with ASCII chars) which the user has to fill in. Although It works very well, it looks very old school.
A "Configure Internet connectivity" wizard should be accessible from the System-> Administration or -> Preferences Menu
I know this is a possible duplicate to Idea number 4
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4/
but that one has a much broader scope.
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