There are a couple of good articles in Linux Gazette covering setup of
Diald and PPP at http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue26/kunz.html. Enjoy...
-- Arun Khan
At 05:58 PM 12/15/98 -0500, Patricia Sendroff wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I recently upgraded my slackware (or rather reinstalled everything) I'm
>running slackware 3.3, kernel 2.0.30, and I found out that diald didn't
>come with it. The previous version was a Linux Universe book and cd set,
>which installed both diald and a sample dialdconf file. Well anyway, my old
>dialdconf file which I saved on a floppy certainly doesn't work with the
>version I just downloaded.... could someone help me out here.?
>
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>Found my modem, Minicom works and dials out just fine.
>
>I need to write a diald.conf file and I guess some scripts to go in
>etc/ppp.
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>All I need this for is the simple task of automatic dialing to my isp
>whenever netscape or ftp is launched. Later I may try to use this to
>automatically get my email or something, but not yet.
>
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>I read the PPP-howto, and this is what I've done so far:
>
>Compiled in PPP support, when I boot it says PPP line discipline
>registered -did I need this??
>
>/etc/resolv.conf is o.k. according to the how-to
>
>/etc/host.conf is o.k. according to the how-to
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>I *think* I need scripts for
>/etc/ppp/options
>/etc/ppp/scripts/ppp-on
>/etc/ppp/scripts/ppp-on-dialer
>???
>
>I connect to my ISP just using a username and password.
>
>Please excuse my newbie-ness... the previous distribution I installed was a
>little more user-friendly, but this time I'd like to know how to do this
>"from scratch".
>
>--Thanks in advance
>
>---Patti S.
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