Assuming you want a PPP connection, the easiest way is to do it by hand.
Here are the steps:
1. know where your modem is, and make sure that serial port is synlinked to
/dev/modem . Also make sure you have "pppd" and "chat" on your machine.
2. use minicom to make a connection to your ISP and note the authentication
exchange that you have to go through (that is, what prompts the ISP send,
such as "login:" and "password:", what you have to enter in response) before
the actual ppp connection starts (in minicom, this will look like line noise).
3. try running the script /usr/sbin/pppsetup and see if that gets you going.
If not ... proceed to step 4.
4. From the PPP HowTo (look in /usr/doc somewhere for it), get the model
scripts ppp-on and ppp-on-dialer . Put them in /usr/sbin and /etc/ppp
respectively, and make ppp-on executable ("chmod 700 /usr/sbin/ppp-on").
5. Use the information from step 2 to fill in the blanks in /usr/sbin/ppp-on
... and, if necessary, to customize the expect/send exchanges in
/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer .
6. Try running ppp-on .
If you got the connection to work manually at step 3 or step 6, you can then
go on to use an autodialer, like diald, to make and break connections
automatically in the background. But that's for later....
At 08:21 AM 8/6/99 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Currently I'm using Slackware 4.0 and I am wondering how to dial up
>to my ISP using my modem.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>From
>
>Robert Hickey
>
>
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