Others have already addressed the minix part of your posting. To get PPP
running on Slackware:
1. Make sure your modem is configured properly. Slackware usually prompts
you for this during an installation, so I'll assume you already have this
part right.
2. Go to /usr/sbin and edit the script "ppp-on" to put in the necessary
personalization -- ISP phone number, userid, password, etc. Run the script
to start a pppd connection.
3. Before you connect, add the ISP's nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf .
4. To end a ppp sesssion, there is a script /usr/sbin/ppp-off .
5. If you're having problems connecting, check the messages from pppd and
chat in /var/log/messages . Also check "route -n" while pppd is active to
make sure the default route is set right, and ifconfig to make sure the ppp0
device is installed properly.
This is the clunky way to run pppd, by hand. diald works fine with
Slackware, and I assume you know from other distributions how to use it.
At 06:54 AM 3/9/99 -0500, Michael Trausch wrote:
>I downloaded Minix the other day and tried to install it yesterday...
>=(... it ate my partitions on my hard drive. And what's worse, I can't
>find my Red Hat 5.2 CD-- so I'm using Slackware (which I can't figure out
>how to connect via PPP to the 'net... =(
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