Re: [Utopia] Non-removable device handling



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...
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