Thanks, Lawson, for the detailed answers. BTW, I was searching all over the systems here to find the chat script (and I'm used to it using a DOS-chat all the time whdere precisely you set the modem's adrs and irq) but couldn't _find_ the corresponding thing here, e.g. in that Mdk-install: there is a chat script in it, but it does _not_ contain anything related to modem initiation etc., only the dialogue and messages when connected with the dial-in point already.
For instance, either on the DOS command line or in a chat.scr you would have base address (in your script indeed referred to as /dev/ttyS2) _and_ irq specified, besides of speed, crtscts, etc. What I do not understand in the example of your second, bash script is, where this one gets the variables "$6" and "$1" from, and the specifications for the "$DNS1" and "$DNS2". Where are these set ? (REM, using the Waterloo TCP/IP arrangement in DOS - which is a port from *nix -, I get a bit confused with the fact that you have a permanent "ip-up" script. In the very similar DOS sequence of routines, with chat running first and then a packet driver loading [with latter using a configuration script which contains, e.g., name servers, packet volume etc.] the "ip-up.bat" script gets written anew each time a ppp-connection is done _by_ the driver and run from it. The WATTCP.CFG there contain both permanent parts and what is appende into it by ip-up.bat, like with resolve.conf in your example.) Well, I'll spend some more hours again to chase those scripts on the two different installs here (haven't got a Sclackware active at the moment). And it's always good to have examples of "weird" things as these show more different options and syntax idiosynchracies. On some of the points you made: > ... trying to probe what IRQ it uses is not that easy. Hmm, how come ? for at least fifteen years I use a little DOS utility wich spits out the list of existing commports _and_ the irq.s related to each. And there had been quite several of such little DOS helpers; a bit more difficult to find them these days. > ...anything you don't specify to pppd on the command line or options file > will be left as is. There _is_ a "pppd.options" file but I couldn't find either there or in the "man" any hint on how to use it for precisely the issue at hand. > What are pon and ifup? These are bash commands in Debian and Mandrake, resp., for starting ppp[n] from the console (I think it's "p-on pppN" in Slackware, just to add a bit to the confusion); in a way, the correspondings to kppp which is used from X only. // Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2002-12-30 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
