Hi Dan.
didn't see anyone else answering this so:
1) you can add X3 to your init scripts and that should get it to work
nicely :) this is the generic string to force it to find a dial tone (ie:
force it to do whatever whether or not it detects a dial tone or not).
Try it out in minicom!
2) I use netcfg to configure my ppp interface. you can set the display to
some other machine to get up the pretty windows. for some reason that
hoses any init strings i use (just me i guess) so you want to go into
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and edit your ifcfg-ppp0 and chat-ppp0 to
reflect your new init string (the X3). I don't know if this is much use to
you...
I hope that this helps in some small way :)
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Dan Browning wrote:
> 2 problems:
>
> 1. How do I set up the "do not wait for dial tone" feature, so that I can
> dial 9 to get an outside line? I need to do this on mdk5.3 and rh6.1 boxes.
>
> I've been setting up various RedHat gateway/firewalls using modems over the
> last year or so, some running mandrake 5.3, others running redhat 6.1. Now
> some of them need to dial 9 before the provider, and others need to dial 99
> before dialing the providers number. I know it can be disabled with custom
> Hayes codes to the modem, but I have about 2 dozen different modems and I'm
> not about to look up all of their different codes.
>
> 2. When I use linuxconf to setup a ppp0, then activate it, it locks up.
> Linuxconf of course reports "the process is hung, would you like to kill
> it?" So I can't get it going even if I solve number 1 problem above.
> remember, this is a console-only box, so I can't quite boot into X and use
> red hat's newfangled setup feature. Also, even though I've read every howto
> out there (you name it), I would rather setup ppp in 10 seconds through
> linuxconf than 2 hours through custom dialup scripts.
>
> Does anyone have a collection of dialup scripts that work out of the box on
> rh61, don't lock it up, and can be easily customized?
>
> Also, I have updated to the latest linuxconf and redhat updates to no avail.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Dan Browning
> Network Administrator
> Cyclone Computer Systems
>
>
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