DSL Start Script

Tom Wesley tom at tomaw.org
Sun Nov 21 18:41:48 CET 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 18:20 +0100, Thorsten Grothe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm have a pretty new DSL Connetction. To go online I have to:
> 
> become root: su root
> start-adsl
> 
> to connect to the internet.
> 
> To stop  the connection I have to type
> 
> stop-adsl.
> 
> These are the commands that come with the rp-ppoe driver.
> Does anyone knows a convenient way to do this with an xfce starter or 
> another more convenient solution?
> 
> Regards Thorsten

sudo will let you do this without specifying a password.  Also, you
might want to try to work out the two-state launcher plugin, it could
probably provide you with one button that changes between connected and
disconnected when clicked.

-- 
Tom Wesley <tom at tomaw.org>
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