Hello! My Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop is reported to have a working winmodem with Slackware here:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html -> http://www.angelfire.com/linux/t_johnson/ According to the article, the modem's driver can be built into the kernel via: Sound -> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture -> PCI Devices -> Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD MC97 Modem (EXPERIMENTAL) I have ppp_generic and ppp_async built as modules and autoloaded. I have slmodem emerged, but is that necessary with the kernel driver? I have net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r10 emerged like this: -activefilter -atm -dhcp -ipv6 -mppe-mppc +pam When I try to '/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start' I get: * Bringing ppp0 up ... SIOCDELRT: No such process [ ok ] but I don't hear any dialing and subsequent ping attempts just say "unknown host". Also, a subsequent '/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 stop' says: * Bringing ppp0 down ... * Interface seems to be down already [ ok ] I can get rid of the 'SIOCDELRT: No such process' error if I change to: DEFROUTE="no" in '/etc/conf.d/net.ppp0'. That option is defined as "Must pppd set the default route?". Lastly, I need to use a special script that my ISP (GlobalDialUp.com) provides. How can I incorporate that? If I can get this working my troubles will be over! - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
