non gnome mobile broadband

[duckpops]

hello all,

is there anyone who can point me to some sort of step by step to set-up, from start to finish, a mobile broadband connection in one of the "other" window managers? I don't like gnome because of the sliding and traying and popping and helping all the time. I have gotten the internet to connect in gnome, but I have no idea of how or what is happening. every man page for a dozen or so apps I read gets to a point well short of an actual connection, seeming to think I know what to do next.

I don't. and I don't know where on my system to look. I recently came from rh8 to f14, and everything seems much more complicated because of the automation in gnome. so, not a total newb, just total lost.

any help thanks.

[David Batson]

I use wvdial in Arch Linux (also available in Fedora). I believe you should be able to use wvdialconf to set up your modem initially (worked for me in Arch). After running wvdialconf, edit /etc/wvdial.conf and have stupid mode set to 1 (or on) for a faster connection.

wvdial is normally run from terminal as root, but it can be run as normal user with the proper configuration changes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wvdial

[duckpops]

thanks, david,

but that link links to the sort of half finished how-to I wanted to avoid. I did find a gnome file (eventually) with the internet connection settings, but I can't match them to the wvdial fields.

needless to say, I'm using the dreaded gnome to send/read this thread.

[duckpops]

you can all relax, it is now done. it wasn't easy, and probably not right, but it is gnomes-less

(sort of)

I go