Subject: Re: dialup with YDL v2.1 - does it work?
From: Ren Bourion (rene.bourion@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 08:01:45 MST
le 09/12/01 22:40, Graham Leggett à minfrin@sharp.fm a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I am having problems with dialup on YDL v2.1.
>
> Using the "dialup configuration" option on the Gnome desktop I configure
> my dialup ISP details. These details are accessible via wvdial, which
> works great from the command line.
>
> rp3 however does not work - you can select one of your ISP configs and
> say to start the interface, but all that happens is that a ppp device is
> created with a default IP address of 10.x.x.x - no attempt is made to
> actually dial up.
>
> Can anyone shed some light as to how this is supposed to work?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
> --
It works very well for me.
The best tool to use (from my experience) is netcfg. Unfortunately, the
netcfg-2.36 version of the YDL 2.1 disk is somehow defective, so I installed
netcfg-2.25 taken from an older disk; this one is good.
In netcfg, you enter all the parameters relevant to your setup.
In the "Names" window, you may replace "localhost" by a personal name (this
amounts to editing /etc/hosts), and you must enter the IPs of your domain
name servers.
In the "Hosts" window, there is not much to do; be sure to leave 127.0.0.1
for the IP.
In the "Interfaces" window, click on "add", then "PPC" and "ok". In the
"Create PPP interface" window that opens, enter the telephone number of your
ISP and your login and password. Then a click on "Customize" opens a new
window "Edit PPP interface", where there are several tasks to be done:
-- Hardware: check "Use hardware..." and "Abort connection...".
And (***very important***) check "Allow any user..." so that a non-root user
can operate the link.
Still about hardware, put 115200 for the speed and /dev/modem for the modem
port, after checking that the proper link exists (try 'modemtool &' on the
console).
-- Communication: normally, you should not have to edit the chat script.
-- Networking: check only "Set default..." and set MRU to 1500.
At this point, everything is done, and the interface should work. You can
test it from inside netcfg by using the Activate/Disactivate buttons in the
"Interfaces" window. Or else you could test it from the console by using the
scripts
ifup ppp0 & to connect
ifdown ppp0 & to disconnect.
If all is well, leave netcfg. For day-to-day use, I found that a convenient
interface is provided by rp3: launch it and select ppp0, and there remains a
small window from which you can connect/disconnect by a single click; a
green light shows when the link is on. This window stays all the time if you
save your session.
If your desktop is Gnome, an alternative is provided by the applet
ModemLights, into which you would have to copy the two above scripts.
I wish you success with this. Cheers.
RB
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Tue Dec 11 2001 - 08:17:37 MST