At 08:12 AM 4/30/01 -0500, Rukmani Gopalan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am a Linux newbie and I have both Linux and Windows on my partition. I
have a lot of resources on the internet and I don't know how I go about
accessing the internet from Linux. I have AOL that I can access from
Windows. So everytime I log on to windows to go to the internet and then
restart my machine to go to Linux. How do I go aboout dialing up to the ISP
to access the internet from Linux??? Also, when I am in Linux, my modem is
not detected. Does Linux come with a modem driver or shoould I install
one??? If so, where do I find it???
<sigh> It depends ... on details you haven't included. General outline:
1. The usual way to connect to an ISP under Linux, via a dialup connection,
is by using the pppd package to make a ppp connection. Installation details
vary by distribution.
2. As to modems, either you have a real modem (one with a UART) or you
don't. If you do, you access it like any serial device -- via /dev/ttyS0 (=
COM1) or /dev/ttyS1 (= COM2), and you configure it with the "setserial"
program. Just set up pppd (or a terminal emulator like minicom) to use the
appropriate ttyS* device. If you don't have a real modem (that is, you have
a so-called WinModem), you are probably out of luck; nearlt none of these
modems work with Linux. To get the details about yours, connect to URL ...
whoops -- it USED to be http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, but that
404s today, so perhaps someone else who knows where this page moved can help
us both.
For more information, go to www.linuxdoc.org and read the appropriate HowTos
-- there still should be a PPP HowTo, and the Hardware Compatibility HowTo
is probably the place to check about modem issues.
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