At 11:30 AM 5/9/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am new to linux and i love it already, I bought red hat 5.1 and i dont
>know how to set it up to dialthe internet, i dont even know where to start
>continue or end...nor do i know how it works....can anyone help me>??????thank
>you....
First, you don't "dialthe internet" -- you dial a particular Internet
Service Provider (ISP) with whom you have an account. This isn't just
quibbling about terminology -- it means that some of what you need to know
is specific to the ISP you are using. General Linux advice, from us or
printed sources, can't help you with that, beyond identifying the
information need to get from your ISP. Basically, your ISP needs to provide
dialing instructions, a userid, a password, a list of nameservers, and --
depending on the specifics of its service -- possibly an IP address for your
host, a geteway address, and some details about authentication method. (If
you have a working ppp connection to your ISP, on a Windows or MacOS host,
you should have most if not all of this information already.)
Second, the place to start is with the PPP HowTo, available on your CD-ROM
of Linux somewhere and online at URL
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html . You may also need to
consult the Modem HowTo, available at the same Web site.
Third, many distributions have helpful programs like pppsetup available for
configuring these connections. I think RH provides one of them, but I don't
use it myself so don't know for sure. Look at the RH manual, or see if
someone else posts that information here.
If not, here is a rough outline of the steps you'll need to follow to set up
a ppp connections by hand.
1. Make sure you have a working modem and that it can be found at /dev/modem
. The easiest way to do this is to see if you can access your modem using
the terminal program minicom .
2. See if you have the script /usr/sbin/ppp-on . If you do, edit it to
provide the information it asks for (basically the ISP-specific items I
listed earlier). If you don't have this script, you can copy it from the PPP
HowTo.
3. Add the nameserver IP addresses to the file /etc/resolv.conf .
4. Run the ppp-on script and see if it makes a connection. To check this,
after it is run, enter "ifconfig" and see if it reports a ppp0 interface
available,
5. See if the connection works, by trying to access some Internet services.
If you find you cannot access sites by name try IP address and see if that
works. (If it does, your problem is not with ppp as such but with name
service (DNS).)
6. If you have the ppp-on script, you also have a ppp-off script. Use it to
end the ppp connection.
If this doesn't work, look in your log files (probably /var/log/messages and
/var/log/debug) to see what information the ppp apps (pppd and chat)
reported about the attempt. This may let you figure out what ahppened; if
not, it is the kind of detail others will need to know to give you
troubleshooting advice.
If after trying all of this, you still need help, be as specific as you can
about what you tried and what problems you found.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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