If anyone uses these things to connect to a site with a modem could you please tell me how you did it? I assume that since I have these packages that I can connect to a site and establish a ppp link. Also does anyone know why the man pages for diald does not install in the same place as other man pages. Thank you
Well.. first I got ppp working. To get this working, I had to read the documentation on how to configure ppp and chat, and I had to turn on logging from both of them. [For chat, you want to start it with chat -v. For pppd in general, you want to make sure that your /etc/syslog.conf file has the proper entries to log with your version of pppd.] Then, I got diald working. For the version of ppp that I'm using, there's a bug that made something (I forget what) crash, so I had to turn off defaultroute in ppp and turn it on in diald. Again, turning on logging is key to understanding what's going on well enough to get the system working properly. -- Raul
