Andrew J Fortune wrote: > > I have looked in the man page for pon, and it tells me that the two files : > > /etc/ppp.chatscript; and > /etc/ppp.options-out > > are required for pon to work. Neither of these files exist on my system, and > I was wondering if maybe this is the reason why I have been unable to > connect to the Internet ??? If that is the case, then how do I generate > these files ? .... is there some other PPP configuration routine that I need > to run as well as pppconfig, which I have already run ? > > (Recall that originally I had the following error message when attempting to > connect to the net using pon with no parameters : "/usr/sbin/pppd: In file > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option '/dev/modem'". I attempted to > fix this by adding the line /dev/modem in the provider file) > > regards, > Andrew J Fortune >
Hmm; I suspect bad/old documentation. My man says the same, but I don't have the two files mentioned on my system either, yet I'm dialing up just fine. When you run pppconfig, and it asks for the modem port and the default says "/dev/modem", change it to "/dev/ttyS[0-3]", with the 0-3 being the number of the "COM port" your modem is on minus one. For example, if the modem is on COM2, you'd specify "/dev/ttyS1".
