Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-05 Thread James Allen
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:39:22 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, managed to set read and write permissions for both ttyS4 and dex/modem So I am connecting, Well, I gotta sleep, I just wish I could figure out why I cant resolve a hostname, like www.google.com Scotty

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-05 Thread John Hasler
James Allen writes: In /etc/resolv.conf make sure you have search your_isp_domain This is not necessary. nameserver your_isp_primary_nameserver This is. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-05 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
OK, I finally got a webpage after dialing in. I tried this command off a webpage route add default ppp0 and things began to work. Apparantly the default is eth0, my ethernet card. This card is not connected to a LAN, it just came with the compter and there it sits. Now, how can I make it so

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-05 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Actually, I have a better question. Since the route command shows me that eth0 is the default, and I know I have no internet off of that, how can I set up my lan configuration so that eth0 never gets the default route status, this should free up the dialing dialog to take over that status, right?

Re: Can't dial up - - SOLVED

2004-09-05 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scotty Fitzgerald) wrote: Advice please, I can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is not in the drop down box. I tried ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem from

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-04 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
?! Thanks for any and all advice, and sorry to be such a noob. --- Scotty On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:20:04 +0200, Steve Mandelmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Advice please, I can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:29:13PM +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Well, I managed to get the root user to query the modem. kppp started to work once I issued ln -f /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem But I would rather not have to log on the internet as a root user. It wont go from my regular user

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-04 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is not in the drop down box. I tried ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem from the shell, but when I select /dev/modem from the drop down box, it does

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-03 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
be ttys3 in linux mode. Try to use K's point-click interface. Is there any watch outs I need to know for trying this strategy?! thanks! --- Scotty On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:20:04 +0200, Steve Mandelmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Advice please, I can't dial up. I am

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-03 Thread John Hasler
Scotty Fitzgerald writes: Since I will need the pointy clickey KDE thing to sell my fiance on swithcing to linux, I really want to get that working. Install gpppon. It's essentially a GUI front-end for pon and poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Can't dial up

2004-09-01 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Advice please, I can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is not in the drop down box. I tried ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem from the shell, but when I select /dev/modem from the drop down

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Scotty Fitzgerald: Advice please, I can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is not in the drop down box. I tried ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem from the shell, but when

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Mandelmore
Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Advice please, I can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is not in the drop down box. I tried ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem from the shell, but when I