[Wolves] Suse 9.2

[sparkes]

Peter Cannon wrote:

> 
> Trouble is this is the most important feature of 'any' operating system if you 
> cant connect to the Internet you might as well get an XBox instead and youd 
> be surprised at the amount of people who still use dial-up.
> 
> 

Nah, you can't do dial up on an Xbox they are broadband only ;-)

The problem started when the dialer interfaces to PPP where created. 
With a little foresight they would make the dial up process transparent 
to the user and the OS just see another network coming online.  Once 
dialing is setup you should never have to use something like wvdial it 
should just work.  Want to connect to the internet, bring up the 
interface, a mouse click to most users.  None of this cryptic messages 
or windows showing the dial up process proceeding you should only see 
that stuff when you are debugging not using.

Foresight is a wonderful thing to have in retrospect.

Now the money has moved away from supporting dial up accounts it's too 
late to fix but I am glad the majority of broadband setups are 
transparent and treat the internet as a wan the otherside of a simple 
network gateway.  That's what it should have always looked like because 
that's all it is.

sparkes