Re: Connecting to the Net

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In a message dated Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:55:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kkhan idirect com writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> Let me start by saying, that I have read the HOW-TO, but it doesnt seem to
> be helping in this situation. I am using redhat 6.0 running gnome and
> trying to set up to connect to the internet. 
> Now I alot of information from my isp but I am not sure where to plug it
> all in. I ran the network configuration from the control panel but I am not
> sure where everything belongs. 1 am not sure about what setting that need
> to be in the name servers, hosts, interfaces and routing. I have the
> primary & secondary ip numbers, hostname, and domain name and there is no
> gateway either. So what do I have to setup? 
> 
> 	Also I went to this site on the net to see if I could find an utility that
> would do it for me, but all I found was this site...
> 
> http://idirect.linuxberg.com/gnomehtml/net_ppp.html
> 
> I downloaded gppp, but now I dont know how to install them, or even where
> to install them.. if I could get some sort of guidance, or help, I would be
> really appeciative.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks In Advance,
> 
> Kashif
> 
> 
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The first thing you may want to check is what type of modem you have...here is the list of incompatible ones that I know of...

The Mwave modem/soundcard by IBM is not supported. The modem portion appears to have a regular UART and ought to work; the sound function, however, is not compatible with the Linux sound driver. 
Plug-and-Play (PNP) modems (these may be set up via isapnptools and setserial). 
Modems that require software drivers for compression, error correction, high-speed operation, etc. 
PCI Memory Mapped Modems (these do not act like serial ports) 
Internal SupraExpress 56k 
Internal SupraSonic 56k 
Newer Internal Laptop Modems 
The Multiwave Innovation CommWave V.34 
US Robotics WinModem series 
US Robotics Sportster Voice/Fax modem (X2 model 1785 internal PNP) 
Boca modem (model M336l) 
Boca Research 28.8 internal modem (model MV34AI) 
Zoltrix 33.6 Win HSP Voice/Speaker Phone modem 
Motorola ModemSURFR internal 56K 
DSVD modem 
Compaq 192 PCMCIA modem/serial card 
New Media Winsurfer PCMCIA modem/serial card 



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