Kent West wrote:
>
> 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".
I'm running Slink/Potato, and the files in question have moved.
The chatscript is now in /etc/chatscripts/provider.
The remaining files are now in /etc/ppp/* (ppp is a subdir now).
--
Ed C.
