[H-GEN] Linux Dialup Configuration

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 05:09:24PM +1000, Frank Brand wrote:
> X-ISP would do that for you. It is on the APC CD in the APC directory or
> from the web page:-
> http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/
> It would have saved all the drama in setting up ppp too!!

] [aj at sapphire ~]$ dpkg --print-avail xisp
] Package: xisp
] Priority: optional
] Section: contrib/net
] Installed-Size: 430
] Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb at debian.org>
] Architecture: i386
] Version: 2.5p4-1
] Depends: ppp (>= 2.2.0f), libc6, libforms0.88, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0)
] Suggests: menu (>= 1.5)
] Filename: dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/net/xisp_2.5p4-1.deb
] Size: 170042
] MD5sum: d85ccf93325250355515cee8b00cf4c2
] Description: A user-friendly X interface to pppd/chat.
]  The xisp package implements a user-friendly X interface to pppd/chat
]  and provides maximum feedback from the dial-in and login phases on a
]  browser screen, as well as a manual login terminal window. It also
]  provides greater versatility in interrupting a call in progress and in
]  general enhances the user's feeling of "what's going on", especially if
]  he/she is not all that well acquainted with the intricacies of system
]  log files. Xisp also has means to track your phonecosts.
 
(libforms0.88 isn't Open Source software, btw, therefore xisp is Eeeevil :)

I've heard about wvdial, which is apparently reasonably good:

] [aj at sapphire ~]$ dpkg --print-avail wvdial
] Package: wvdial
] Priority: optional
] Section: comm
] Installed-Size: 134
] Maintainer: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at debian.org>
] Architecture: i386
] Version: 1.20
] Depends: ppp (>= 2.3.0), libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), libstdc++2.9
] Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/comm/wvdial_1.20.deb
] Size: 58406
] MD5sum: 5081ed120d9d84cfc5fcfd7f4526394b
] Description: PPP dialer with built-in intelligence.
]  WvDial sacrifices some of the flexibility of programs like "chat" in order
]  to make your dialup configuration easier.  When you install this package,
]  your modem will be detected automatically and you need to specify just
]  three parameters: the phone number, username, and password.  WvDial knows
]  enough to dial with most modems and log in to most servers without any
]  other help.
]  .
]  In particular, you no longer need a "chat script" to handle the most common
]  situations.

FWIW, etc.

Cheers,
aj

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