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Madainn mhath...
Greetings all,
I have been "lurking" as it were on the list for
several weeks now.
It's great to see so many people that are
knowledgable, and so many who want to be ... excelent.
Firstly I am not the kind to ask questions until I
have read and tried to find answers myself, I am
thorougly frustrated at this point however. Let
me say that I have had many people (on irc) suggest going into xwindows and
using kppp or somthing similer. But I do not want to work from within xwindows.
If I wanted to keep using GUI I would stay with windows. I am an old hand from
the DOS days and command line is an old friend of mine.
I am running Mandrake 6.5.
My problem is that I am not having much success
dialing out with pppd. I have an old 33.6 ISA hardware modem, jummperd
approriatley. I CAN dial out using minicom. The modem is /dev/ttyS2.
I have read and printed the pages from http://www.abest.com/~kai/pppd.linux.html
pppd and chat
reside in /usr/sbin
As /root i used emcs to crete four (4) files;
ppp.start, iq.cht, resolv.conf (in /etc), and ppp.down these files now
reside in /root as that is where they saved to. Details...
ppp.start (resides in
/root)
#!/bin/bash
pppd /dev/ttyS2 38400 connect `chat -f iq.chat` mru
1500 crtscts :
iq.chat (resides in
/root)
"" ATDT<mydilup#> CONNECT "" host: ppp ogin:
<my login> assword: <my password>
/etc/resolv.conf
(Note: This file was not present
before I created it.)
domain <my ISP domain name>
nameserver <appropriate primary
IP>
nameserver <appropriate
secondry IP>
[...]
ppp.down (resides in
/root) ( -l is lower case L)
kill -l `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
last night i envoked
the ppp.start command as /root. The cursor hesitated for
just a second, then I ws returned to a command prompt. No dialing
insued.
I had thought that perhaps
/usr/sbin/chat was not in the "path" (still working on what
standard paths are in linux - is there anything like autoexec.bat where pathing
can be set?) but pppd is in /usr/sbin
and it invokes fine from /root.
This morning I envoked the following comand as
/root; : cat "atdt mydilup#" >
/dev/ttyS2
No dialing insued.
I would appreciate ny thoughts and/or
input.
Thanks in advance...
Greagh
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