Connecting to the Internet

[squareyes]

Asif Lodhi wrote:

>Hi Bill,
>
>On 12/7/05, Bill Cairns <CairnsWW at eskom.co.za> wrote:
>  
>
>>- To initiate a dial up to the network requires the root passwork (I would
>>regard that as a huge security flaw)
>>- There is no way of setting the connection speed and my connections seem
>>slow. Very slow.
>>So I have been trying other ways - some of which were suggested by people on
>>this forum - to connect. I have not managed to get pppconfig with pon / poff
>>to work. Yet. But I am struggling. Gnome-ppp just does not believe that I
>>have a modem, I still have some other options to go ...
>>    
>>
>
>I think that what Winton has just suggested on this thread is OK. 
>AFAIK, if you sudo run something then it doesn't hurt you that bad and
>you are relatively safe.  On Fedora I used to tie  tty/S0 (Serial port
>0 probably) with my dial-up connection and it worked.  I guess
>pppconfig must have some options for configuring connection speed,
>etc.  I have no problems with Fedora Core 3, at least.  Lets see how
>it goes with Ubuntu 5.10.  I'll get back to the list if I do find
>problems.  I'll certainly give you my feedback on this list - same
>thread.
>
>--
>Best regards,
>
>Asif
>
>  
>
Hi again Asif,
you only need to do  sudo pppconfig, to configure the setup,
don't need sudo to actually connect. To disconnect just  poff

Take Care
Winton