Re: [Utopia] Non-removable device handling

[Baris Metin <baris uludag org tr>]

Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:24:05PM +0300 , Enver ALTIN :
> Merhaba,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:06 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Stuff like modem-lights currently does things like run wvdial even if
> > that's not the distribution's choice of dialers. What's the right layer 
> > to let the desktop interact with hardware that's going to be configured 
> > in both a distribution and OS specific way? It's been suggested that 
> > there should be some sort of dbus listener that can run OS/distro 
> > specific code. This seems attractive to me, especially since it helps 
> > deal with awkwardnesses like getting people the ability to dial out 
> > without having to give them ridiculous levels of permissions.
> 
> I always thought that the dialer mess is such a pain and should be taken
> care of. Every single Linux distribution has pppd and it's roughly
> enough to get a working PPP connection I think; but maybe I'm missing
> something around the problem...

I think "halification" is the verb offered for this purposes.

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