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Re: Modem Help!!! --- next question

Hey Jeffrey,

Okay, makes sense. I snag a copy form my OS X box. Move it over to the darwin box.
Now that should take care of tcp/ip -- ppp.

Now how do I start a/the dial up?
What commands from the cli should I use to fire up pppd to initalize
the modem. Seeing as how this will be a darwin only box -- no OSX or OS 9
my ability to dial out would/will be really nice.

And BTW thank you so much for last tip Jeffrey.

--Vince
On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Jeffrey Frey wrote:

Vince,

Here's the deal: Apple spent a ton of time getting the SystemConfiguration framework written, which dynamically and centrally handles all network interface properties/settings. But they didn't provide a good utility for modifying/
adding configurations to the database,
so this wonderful piece of software is sitting there useless on most people'
s Darwin boxes.

One thing you could try: install OS X first, configure the network settings via the Network control panel, and then save a copy of /var/db/SystemConfiguration/
preferences.xml on another computer/disk. Then install Darwin, after it'
s installed, etc, copy the saved preferences back into /var/db/SystemConfiguration/
preferences.xml, reboot, and go with it. That should work...that's how I configured my Wallstreet PowerBook.

The only other thing I can tell you is that I'm (personally) steadily working on a utility to mirror the Network control panel of OS X in Darwin.
The utility (NetworkConfig) will allow you to easily add network interface configurations and networking locations (to use the OS X terms) to the SystemConfiguration system. I keep finding little things I forgot or could add to make it a smoother, more friendly piece of code; nevertheless, it should be complete soon.

-Jeff

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Jeffrey Frey, Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant
Doren Research Group
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Delaware
http://deaddog.duch.udel.edu/~frey/
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