Has anyone here successfully connected to the internet via a modem and using PPP? If so, would you mind if I pick your brain?
At ByteWorks[1] we've been fairly successful transitioning from MS Windows 98 to Debian/Sarge. KDE, OpenOffice.org, and Firefox work quite well on the older machines that have been refurbished. Currently, these machines run in the shop with all network traffic going over ethernet. However, when these machines leave the shop, they will be in the students home connecting to the 'net via modem, which is presenting some issues. In particular, connecting via PPP to the city's modem bank. Under Windows 98 we click through the Dial-up Network wizard and it connects just fine. Unfortunately, under Debian we have not been able to get KPPP to work right. In fact KPPP doesn't even display, but that's an issue we'll resolve later. For now our strategy is to to get the following pieces to work: - driver (works) - dial out (works) - connect to city's modem bank (works) - establish PPP (does not work) We just want to establish a PPP connection and have been trying with wvdial. wvdial dials and connects, but instead of starting a PPP connection, a terminal session is started. Does anyone know if some kind of special sequence needs to be sent in order to make the connection? I've been reading up about modems and ppp, although each site seams to differ from the next in its explanation. Just thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has been successful and what they did. [1] http://stlouis.missouri.org/bworks/ Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
