pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Thursday, 8. February 2007 08:38, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>  > On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 18:45, Joe Vender wrote:
>  > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>  > > ...
>  > >
>  > > > There is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55785 on record, your
>  > > > description sounds more like you're getting a kernel panic in the
>  > > > background though (KPPP is a frontend for pppd and the in-kernel ppp
>  > > > driver).
>  > >
>  > > If I want to use KPPP in FreeBSD, do I need to first manually edit any
>  > > config files for pppd, and if so, please elaborate, or does creating
>  > > the settings in the "Configure" sections of KPPP take care of
>  > > everything needed?
>  > >
>  > > I found this bug report which sounds just like the problem I'm having
>  > > with FreeBSD and KPPP.
>  >
>  > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/98154
>  >
>  > I agree, that sounds similar. I've changed the CC to stable@, since that
>  > is a better place for pppd/kernel ppp related issues.
>  >
>  > > Is there any intention to address it?
>  >
>  > I call on the community (especially those with modems) to take it on. To
>  > that end, I've left your motivational speech below intact for everyone's
>  > benefit.
>
> Perhaps we should rather be calling upon the KDE developer community to
> provide such a frontend interface to configure and invoke FreeBSD's ppp,
> for those who find a little manual configuration, as you describe below,
> beyond them?

You mean the FreeBSD-using KDE developer community, which is neither very big 
nor very prolific. I am convinced that remaining compatible with common Linux 
solutions will always be the better strategy as far as the desktop is 
concerned.

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