How to setup 56K dailup connection.
Stephen Liu
satimis at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 8 15:57:47 UTC 2006
Hi Mikkel,
Tks for your advice
> If you have configured a PPP connection, it would be something like
> "ifup ppp0". In order for this to work, you have to have a properly
> configured /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0. With most
> ISPs, you also need /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and/or pap-secrets
> properly configured. I believe the GUI network configuration tool
> will set this for you.
>
> There are a couple of other options as well - you can use wdial
> (cli) or kppp (GUI) for example. I know kppp does not configure the
> ifcfg-ppp? files, so you can not use it to bring up the connection
> at boot. I don't remember if wdial does, but I do not believe so.
I have configured the modem to work with kppp. Internet browsing is
now possible.
But I failed to run system-config-network to get the modem configured.
I expect connection can be made at booting similar to running
broadband.
Tks.
B.R.
satimis
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