Do you want a shell connection or a PPP connection to the RH host?
For now, I'll explain the first of them; if you want the second, you'll need
to describe your network situation a bit more (in particular, do you have an
IP address available for the dial-in connection?).
To get your modem to answer ... there is a Linux part and a modem part.
The Linux part: look in /etc/inittab and see if RH includes a line,
commented out, that reads something like the following (this is the example
from Debian):
# Example how to put a getty on a modem line.
#T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
If you have a line like this, uncomment it, and change the S3 at the end to
the correct device for your modem. You may also want a higher speed. Then
restart init ("init q", I think, will do).
The modem part: you need to set it to autoanswer the phone. You can probably
do this configuration through minicom. (I forget the AT command for this;
look in your modem manual.)
This will just let users dial into shell accounts. PPP is more complicated;
read the (alas, getting old) PPP HowTo for the basics, then come back to us
with questions.
Oh, you wrote: "I'll want separate accounts so would it be users or an
Apache server issue." I don't know what you mean here; plese clarify if you
post again.
At 09:53 PM 3/20/00 -0800, TMP Company wrote:
>I want to dial into my Red Hat 6.1 machine and use my network connection to
>the internet.
>
>The machine is connected via a hub to a DSL line and it works with no
>problems working at the machine.
>
>I can test the modem with the dialup configuration tool debug button and it
>will dial out. But it does not answer an incoming call.
>
>I'll want separate accounts so would it be users or an Apache server issue.
>
>I have a book "Running Linux" but I don't see what I'm looking for there or
>at Red Hat.com
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