Ok for dial up to vsnl follow the following steps.
They were given by Atul Chitnis on the pcq site.
Online with Linux
Setting up and sharing a Net connection on your LAN
Connecting to the Internet via Linux is ridiculously easy. Once you are
connected, you can do far more than you could with any other connection.
For the sake of simplicity, I'll assume that you have the X Windowing system
running, and have also installed KDE (from the PCQ CD).
Setting up
Make sure you are logged in as root, then do the following:
Run kppp (either by clicking the K button at the bottom left of your screen,
or running "kppp &" from the command prompt.
Click on "Setup".
Click on "New".
Type in a name for the connection (such as, "VSNL", "Satyam", etc).
Type in the phone number (such as, 172222).
Select the authentication type ("Script-based" for VSNL dial-up, "PAP" for
Satyam or VSNL ISDN).
Don't enter any DNS data-your present DNS setup on your Linux machine as
configured by "pcqupdt" will handle all that.
If you are using PAP authentication then that's all you need to configure
for the account, and you can skip to the next point. If you are using VSNL
dialup (not ISDN) then you also have to define the login script-click on the
tab "Login Script", and enter the script as:
Expect sername:
ID
Expect assword:
Password
Pause 1
Send ppp
Expect ~
Click on OK.
Click on "Device" and set it up for your modem. The defaults should be good
enough. (Remember that ttyS0 is COM1, and ttyS1 is COM2)
Modem Device: /dev/ttyS0
Flow Control: CRTSCTS
Line Termination: CR/LF
Connection Speed: 115200
Enable Lockfile and set the modem timeout to 30 or 60 seconds (30 is usually
enough for tone dialing exchanges).
Click on "Modem".
Make sure that "Modem asserts CD line" is not enabled.
Set "Busy Wait" to the number of seconds you want to wait between attempts
(probably 0).
Click on Modem Commands, and set your favorite initialization string; in
most cases "AT&FX1L3S10=200" should be enough. If you have to dial Pulse
instead of Tone, change the Dial String from ATDT to ATDP. Click on OK.
Now to see if you modem is talking to the serial port, click on Query modem,
after a few seconds you should see some results, and should also see the
send or receive lights on your modem flashing. If they don't (and if DTR
doesn't come on) then you have selected the wrong modem port, correct that
in the Device setting. If the lights flash but you still get an error
message, your port speed in Device is probably too high, change it to 57600
or lower.
Finally, click on the PPP tab, and enable all settings except "Quit on
Disconnect". Set pppd timeout to 30 seconds.
Click on OK.
Repeat this entire sequence for any other dialup accounts you want to
define.
Create the file /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, and put the following commands:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/killall -9 named
/usr/sbin/named /etc/named.conf.online
grep -v pppconnection /etc/hosts >/tmp/hosts.tmp
echo "$4 pppconnection" >>/tmp/hosts.tmp
mv /tmp/hosts.tmp /etc/hosts
ntpdate 128.175.1.3 &> /dev/null &
wall "Internet connection established ($4)"
echo `date` CONNECT $4 >> /var/log/ppplog
Save the file.
Create the file /etc/ppp/ip-down.local, and put the following commands:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/killall -9 named
/usr/sbin/named /etc/named.conf
grep -v pppconnection /etc/hosts >/tmp/hosts.tmp
mv /tmp/hosts.tmp /etc/hosts
wall "Internet connection lost"
echo `date` DISCONNECT >> /var/log/ppplog Save the file.
Make both files executable:
chmod +x /etc/ppp/*.local
Copy the file "/etc/named.conf" to "/etc/named.conf.online". Then edit the
file "/etc/named.conf" and remove the following 4 lines from it:
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
Save the file.
Dialing out
Set "Connect to" to the account you want to dial, enable "Show Log Window",
and hit the Connect button.
The system will now start dialing. You can watch the progress in the log
window. Once you are connected, the Connection window will minimize in the
right bottom corner. To disconnect, click on the modem icon and choose
Disconnect.
Fire up Netscape if you haven't used the K>utilities>Menu Editor to add
Netscape to the menu, just open a terminal window and type "netscape &".
Point it at www.pcquest.com.
Voila!
> hi
> i am pretty new to linux so can anyone tell me how to use my redhat 6.1
> linux to connect to my vsnl account and also how to configure my
> x-windows resolution since the one i get is too big for my screen .wat
> commands or procedure has to b followed to change the resolution in
> x-windows.
> thanks
> rahul
>
>
>
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