Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2403
Minor netcfg GUI restriction prevents sucess
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
I was almost able to use the GUI to set up my radio modem. The GUI forces the response of "CONNECT" after the "Modem Dial Command, ATZ". But my modem dial command is: ATSLI SLIP And produces no result. First off changing the dial command seems to fail sometimes. But more importantly, it would be much more flexible, clean, and visible to the user, if instead of hiding the first couple of dial commands , the entire chat script was editable in the GUI window. By default, of course, it would start out with the same default it does now. It would be no harder to use than now. I've also had problems where I use the GUI, save, exit, restart, and the chat script is DIFFERENT than what I saved. -Bryce
We can't really do that and separate the phone number. I expect that whole interface to go away, too. Unfortunately, this answer is just "sorry, this is a case for editing the chat script by hand". I agree that this is not the answer I'd like to be able to give, but it's the best I can do right now...
Gee I sure hope you're not replacing it with the confusing, overwhelming, weird and buggy linuxconf! I think you could find a way to seperate out the phone number. One way is to make ALL the elements of the chat script visible and editable, just in seperate little boxes. Then annotate the boxes with the parameters you expect most people to change. The fact you're hiding chat script elements is confusing, even to beginners. The user can't follow what the GUI is trying to do, and what happens to the modem does not match what was visible in the GUI.