On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:34:03PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Basically, for 3G dongles, the easiest way to have an accessable from desktop way of bringing it up/putting it down is to use network manager and configure it in there. That's what we use on the netbooks that our engineers take on site because they can easily understand it.
Can't find anything called 'network manager', but I can find KNetworkManager (Open SuSE) and Network Tools (Debian). The latter is installed and AFAICS isn't any help.
KNetworkManager is available for installation from my Lenny CDs, if that is what you mean - or if it will do. I don't expect it'll refuse to play with Gnome...
Look harder:
[noodles@the ~]$ apt-cache search network-manager gnome-main-menu - GNOME start menu applet libslab-dev - development file for libslab0 libslab0 - beautification app library file network-manager-kde - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend) network-manager-openvpn-gnome - network management framework (OpenVPN plugin GNOME GUI) network-manager-openvpn - network management framework (OpenVPN plugin core) network-manager-pptp-gnome - network management framework (PPTP plugin) network-manager-pptp - network management framework (PPTP plugin) network-manager-vpnc-gnome - network management framework (VPNC plugin GNOME GUI) network-manager-vpnc - network management framework (VPNC plugin core) network-manager-dev - network management framework (development files) network-manager - network management framework daemon strongswan-nm - strongSwan plugin to interact with NetworkManager
In particular you want network-manager-gnome (for the GNOME panel applet thingy) and network-manager.
However you might find the version of network manager in Lenny a bit too old for recent 3G dongles; certainly the support is much improved in the version in Squeeze. (I have an Option Icon 225 from Orange that works with Squeeze but was unsupported in Lenny, for example.)
J.