Chapter 1. Introduction

What KAutodial Does

KAutodial is a pppd autodial monitor. When properly set up, KAutodial will:

  • display KPPP-like status messages as pppd autodials: "Looking for modem...", "Dialing...", etc.

  • place modem lights in the system tray on connect

  • allow users to disconnect on demand

  • display connection statistics

  • immediately show modem lights if a connection is already up when the program starts