myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: Automatic net connection

What I miss from windoze and have not figured out yet in DSL is the ablity to connect to my ISP just on opening up the program (either web browser or e-mail). The original route through all the menus and submenus to get to 'pppdial' seems a little primitive and long winded against the other recent sophisticated developments in DSL. If I open Dillo or 'Xfmail' it is to surf or get my mail. Any ideas how this can this can be automated? Failing that, a .DSL to add a desktop icon button to single click on/off for 'pppdial' would be the next best thing.
I know about the dockable vdial but this still needs to loaded through the MyDSL menu each time.

I think what you really want to do is save your dialup settings and connect automatically on boot. Then dillo etc work straight away.

As I have discovered, settings entered into the right-click>System>ipnetconfig etc tools are NOT backed up by default when you hit backup/restore. Pity.

Instead you have to enter the right lines manually in the files filetool.lst and bootlocal.sh. This requires learning some geek, which is not all bad.

See my ongoing partially-successful struggle (to do this for LAN settings, not ppp)at http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2733

That's the limit of my knowledge at present.

http://www.more.net/technical/netserv/tcpip/viewip.html might help you discover your netmask etc numbers if you need to.

its not so dificult to find out.

1. you manualy setup the ppp with menu-system-netsetup-dialup ppp-config (remeber the name you give this connection)
2. add /opt/ppp to the filetool.lst ( so after reboot you do not have to setup again)

now if you look in then ./fluxbox/menu you will see

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[submenu] (dial-up PPP) {}
[exec] (config) {rxvt -rv -fn fixed -T "pppconfig" -e sudo -H /usr/sbin/pppconfig }
[exec] (dial) {rxvt -rv -fn fixed -T "dial" -e sudo /usr/sbin/pppdial.sh }
[exec] (hangup) { sudo /usr/bin/poff -a }

so dial calls /usr/sbin/pppdial.sh.
now lets look into this /usr/sbin/pppdial.sh.:

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#!/bin/bash
TMPFILE=`tempfile -d /tmp -p ras 2>/dev/null`
whiptail --title "Dial PPP" --nocancel --inputbox "Enter provider name" 0 0 2>$TMPFILE
PROVIDER=`cat $TMPFILE`
if [ ! -z "$PROVIDER" ]; then
$(/usr/bin/pon "$PROVIDER")
fi

the line $(/usr/bin/pon "$PROVIDER") is interesting.
if you would type in xterm

Code Sample

sudo /usr/bin/pon the_providername_you_remeberd

i tink dsl will "auto"dial.
if you would type in xterm

Code Sample

sudo /usr/bin/poff -a

i tink dsl will hangup.
now if you can find a way to make both of these commands into desktop buttons or a wrapper script around dillo live becomes easy.

original here.