[plug] Dialup Access

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Simon Scott wrote:

> 	The short answer:
> 
> 	1) Make sure youre modem is linux compatible. If its an internal PCI
> modem then more than likely its a winmodem and is not compatible.... 
> 
> 	2) Its distro dependent what to use, but try running linuxconf as
> root and you should find a menu option concerning ppp. Enter your ISP and
> modem (ie which port it is on) details here, and note the PPP interface
> (probably PPP0).... then, once this is complete, just do 'ifup ppp0' and the
> modem should dial.
> 
> 	You could try using kppp or similar under X windows, but I find them
> a little cumbersome. Depends if you want a neat little windowy thing......
> 
> 	Thats my experience, will this do it people?

I used pppconfig to set my net connection up. Very simple, asks all the
right questions. Once it's done you go "pon ISP" to connect, and "poff
ISP" to disconnect. It also handles multiple dial-up connections well. I
don't think it's distro dependent (I use debian), but there might be
versions modified for specific distributions around. ppconfig itself is a
shell script that uses whiptail (text based dialogs) or plain text if it
can't find whiptail.

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