Re: GNOME Modem Lights Applet Help Suggestion

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Andreas Imhof metamedia ch wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have an albeit very unimportant suggestion for the help of the GNOME
> Modem Lights Applet.
> 
> In the "Advanced Preferences" there is indicated that the applet needs
> the correct modem lock file to display modem information, otherwise it
> cannot display modem information.
> 
> Could you add there that you can retrieve the correct lock file name by
> establishing a PPP connection and then changing into the /var/lock
> directory. There should now be a new lock file. This is most likely the
> one you need for the applet.
> 
> This would help both administrators who have other things to do and
> those newbies that are administrators themselves, but don't know how
> their distro configured the device.
> 

This is a good suggestion. I'll try to get it in.

Cheers,

John