>>>>> "larry" == larry ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
larry> I have just installed Debian off of disks. During larry> installation I did set up the basic loopback for my network larry> even though my machine is not on a network. I want to get larry> my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can install some larry> Debian packages off of the ftp site. I can't seem to get my larry> modem to dial out. I'm using the ppp.chatscript with the larry> appropriate modifications but my log says that the chat larry> script is failing. I can't even hear my modem make an larry> attempt at dialing. Am I missing some thing? Ben's 3 Steps to EZ-PPP under Debian: 1) edit /etc/ppp.chatscript. Fill in blanks. 2) edit /etc/resolv.conf. Make sure there's a line: nameserver 123.45.67.89 (replace 123.45.67.89 with your ISP's nameserver's IP addy) chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf to be sure everyone can read it 3) ln -s /dev/ttySX /dev/modem Replace X with the address of your modem. This number is 1 less than the COM port under DOS. (i.e. COM1 => /dev/ttyS0, COM2 => /dev/ttyS1, et cetera) Then just run 'pon' to dial up, and 'poff' to turn off and hang up. 'plog' will show you exactly what your modem's doing. Good luck! -- Brought to you by the letters N and C and the number 13. "Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads." -- TMBG Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .