James E. LaBarre wrote:
Some time back I had brought up the issue of trying to get BestWeb
dialup working with Linux (Ubuntu). Some people here had said they
had it working, was wondering what tricks someone might have had for
fixing it.
From what I can gather from trying it out again over the weekend, the
dialer (wvdial, GnomePPP, tried both of those) can establish a
connection to the BestWeb POP, will get the IP number (DHCP) and will
set the DNS, but then it can't establish routes. Beyond that, I don't
know what I should be looking for.
I used BestWeb dialup until '07. IIRC I just had to set up kppp
(comparable to wvdial) with their phone number and my username and
password, and had everything else either use the defaults or whatever
the host specified. Then when I wanted to connect, I invoked kppp, and
once I got connected I started up my web/mail client. This was under
Mandrake/Mandriva with KDE.
Adam
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