Grant wrote:
I'm not sure here (but someone will point if I'm mistaken), but ppp
init script is intend to bring up adsl based connections, while you
need a dialler to connect dial-up, back in the days I had dial-up I
used minicom, and later kppp to handle this... In fact, you need to
set your device (usually /dev/modem) and use a program to dial using
that modem, this will create the ppp0 interface for you, and also
(most of them) will set is as the default route. Any server with
dial-up has configurations, and that's what your ISP have in their
script, you just find them out and put the same config at your dialer.
Thanks Daniel, I'm really strung out here. I do have the net.ppp0
interface now. Maybe I just need to emerge and utilize minicom? How
can I do that when all I have is a Gentoo system that can't get online
and an XP system that can dial up?
There are two options:
1. Network the two machines (via Ethernet, FireWire...) and set up
Internet Connection Sharing on XP. Tell the Gentoo box to use the XP
box as its gateway and DNS server. Make sure both machines use the IP
range 192.168.0.x/255.255.255.0, the XP one being 192.168.0.1.
2. Sneaker net--use emerge -fpu whatever 2>
/mnt/removablemedia/download.txt, and then bring download.txt to Windows
and use the Windows version of wget to get the files that you need.
Then copy them over to the Gentoo box.
I wrote a Wiki article on networkless installs. You might find that
helpful.
http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Networkless_stage1_Install
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Colin
Ok, thanks Colin. I'm ready to do this to get minicom but are you
sure that is the missing piece of my puzzle? I've asked about getting
dial-up working before and slmodem and ppp were the only mentioned
emerges. /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 sure looks like it's a configuration
file for normal dial-up connections. It asks for a phone number to
dial and everything. Please confirm that I really need minicom and I
will dig into that.
I don't know about that. I've never used dial-up under Linux. But if
things aren't working now, minicom might fix it.
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Colin
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