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Hi everyone,
Being stuck in a rural area, dial-up seems to be my only financially viable option for Internets. However, all the computers in this house these days are laptops, and having snaking phone cables running all over the place is getting very messy. So I decided to turn an old laptop (that I found in the broom closet of my last apartment) into a wireless/dial-up gateway. For the most part this is fairly straightforward.
My concern right now is to dial up by this method, one would have to go into the room with the gateway machine and fire up wvdial. Not a problem to me, but to my mom or girlfriend it would seem a chore.
How would one go about controlling wvdial from another computer via wifi? How would one set it up in a relatively user friendly way? It would have to be simple enough to allow either of them to just click on "(dis)connect" and a script would run without their knowledge.
Also, the computers connecting to it will be running different operating systems. Mine runs Arch, my girlfriend runs Debian Lenny, and my mom runs Windows XP. I should also note that the gateway machine will be running Arch as well, though this problem seems somewhat distro-agnostic anyway.
Sorry for being a n00b.
Thanks,
Mat.
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you can set up a web server and configure it with php/python/etc so that you can enable/disable it using web.
or, create two users in your dial-up machine (i m assuming an arch box) and in there home directories, configure .bashrc to use wvdial to connect to internet for one user, and disconnect wvdial for another user. ssh needs to be installed however and configured for authorized keys so that it does not ask for the password.
now, you simple use your ssh client to simply connect as the connect/disconnect user, and it should work. i myself havent tried it yet, so it'll be a trial-and-error process for you.
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