Gnome Modem Monitor applet demands a password - can I stop this?

Neil Woolford neil at neilwoolford.co.uk
Sun Aug 7 22:18:42 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 07:02 -0400, azz wrote:
> 
> Ubuntu modem support is definitely in the dark ages,  The only
> workaround to the problem you describe that I could find is to enable
> universe and install gnome-ppp.  Then plop a shortcut to it onto the
> panel.

Thanks very much for drawing my attention to this.  It looks like just
what I needed all along for running dialup connections.  Even a checkbox
for 'Ignore dialtone', which is a pig to set manually in the
configuration files, but needed if you have call waiting or answering
services active.

Neil





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