Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Unless it's a PnP modem, in which case pon will not connect.  So if it's
pnp, get isapnp pzackage first and configure the modem.
Andrew

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Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Kahraman writes:
> How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed.

Modems require no installation (sometimes they do require some
configuration, but not usually).

> So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration
> (manually) for my local ISP?

As root, run pppconfig and answer the questions.
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Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Phil Dyer
Daniel Kahraman wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the
> question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually)
> for my local ISP?
>
> Dan
>
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Dan,

run pppconfig. ( I assume you are using at least hamm...) This will walk you 
thru a
ppp setup.  You need to know what device your modem is attached to, in Windows 
com1
is ttyS0, com2 ttyS1, ...

Then you can run pon and poff to connect/disconnect.
HTH
dyer


Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  >[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
  >
  >> Horacio writes:
  >> 
  >> > BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
  >> > command?
  >> 
  >> What are you trying to do?  I can think of no reason that a user would eve
  >r
  >> need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.
  >
  >I don't get it, I am supposed not to use root except for (re)configuring
  >programs/the system,... so, every time I want to get my mail downloaded I
  >have to enter as root, or else I can't run the smail or sendmail command as
  >a normal user.
  >
  >May be there's a way of doing it automatically by writing it somewhere
  >(probably the same with fetchmail)?
 
The command to use for sending mail is runq, which is in an ordinary user's
path. (It's just a script that runs sendmail.)  Collecting mail should be
automated. Either make it a cron job, to run at regular intervals, or
use the ip-up script to fetch mail every time PPP is started up.

For example:
=
$ cat /etc/diald/ip-up
#!/bin/sh
#
#   $Id: ip-up,v 1.19 1998/08/10 06:27:47 phil Exp $
#
# Sample diald ip-up script -- GV
#

iface=$1
netmask=$2
localip=$3
remoteip=$4
metric=$5


# Set the time and date
ntpdate  -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk &

# Get mail
fetchmail  mail.enterprise.net

# Run the mail queue
 runq
=

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Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:

> Horacio writes:
> 
> > BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
> > command?
> 
> What are you trying to do?  I can think of no reason that a user would ever
> need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.

I don't get it, I am supposed not to use root except for (re)configuring
programs/the system,... so, every time I want to get my mail downloaded I
have to enter as root, or else I can't run the smail or sendmail command as
a normal user.

May be there's a way of doing it automatically by writing it somewhere
(probably the same with fetchmail)?

Cheers

-- 
Un saludo,

Horacio

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Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread john
Horacio writes:
> bug? which bug?  Never did that and I'm not having any probs (AFAIK) with
> ppp.

ppp2.3.5 was originally shipped with no group search permission on
/etc/chatscripts.

> BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
> command?

What are you trying to do?  I can think of no reason that a user would ever
need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.
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Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
>
> 
> > How do I assign the user (instead of the root) the right to dial up the
> > connection?
> 
> Do 'adduser user_name dip' to add user_name to the dip group and 
> 'chmod g+x /etc/chatscripts' to correct a bug in the ppp package.

bug? which bug?  Never did that and I'm not having any probs (AFAIK) with
ppp.

BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
command?

Thanks.

-- 
Un saludo,

Horacio

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Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread john
Chui Tey writes:
> I am a new user to Linux.  I have installed the Debian base system so
> far.  Part of that involved setting up the Connection configs to connect
> to my ISP.  Now, what packages do I require to set up my external
> modem...

ppp and pppconfig, which you already have as they are in the base system.
You ran pppconfig once already during the install, but you can run it again
if you want to change anything.

> ...what is the command I execute to connect to the net.

The command to connect is 'pon'.  The command to disconnect is 'poff'.

> How do I assign the user (instead of the root) the right to dial up the
> connection?

Do 'adduser user_name dip' to add user_name to the dip group and 
'chmod g+x /etc/chatscripts' to correct a bug in the ppp package.

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Re: Configuring Modem

1996-12-16 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Didier Nghia Le Tien wrote:

> Hi all, I'am just a new comer with debian and i have a little question
> (i used Slackware before). I've insltal debian and configure the serial
> port. Then i connected my modem on (cua0 because of PS/2 mouse) and
> started minicom which can't reach the modem. When i type a command like
> "AT" i got no response. And when i use ppp both modem (USR sportster)
> establish the connection but pppd daemon. 
> 
> Does anyone has an idea of what to do ?

You should be using "ttyS0" instead. (use it on all programs that use the
modem)

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