Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use > > > a few tips. > > > >

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 20:54:39, Rob Owens wrote: > > I can get gnome-ppp to recognize both modems. But when I attempt to > dial, I don't hear a dialtone or any dialing. Almost immediately the > application says something like "sending password", and it hangs there. > Of course it's going to hang --

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: .snip. > > So I'm thinking maybe I need some kind of initialization string for the > modem. Are they specific to a certain model of modem? Is there > something else I should be trying? See if this helps: http:/

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about > modems than I realized. > > I'm now using gnome-ppp as a dialer, which uses wvdial as a backend (I > think). I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > ... > I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for my > Agere WinModem. > ... By the way, I forgot to mention that your winmodem is one of the best ones, in my humble opinion (i.e. the best of a bad breed), since it provides

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I > > > could use a few tips. > > > > Thank

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I > > > could use a few tips. > > > > Thank

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about > modems than I realized. > > I'm now using gnome-ppp as a dialer, which uses wvdial as a backend (I > think). I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a dr

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Rob Owens
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use > > a few tips. > > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use > a few tips. > > I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out > for somet

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > > I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out > for something in my old parts bin. > That's not necessarily true anymore. I hate winmodems, but some of the most popular winmodems do have Linux drivers these

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-08 Thread Go Linux
--- On Tue, 11/8/11, Rob Owens wrote: > From: Rob Owens > Subject: dial-up modem usage > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:16 PM > I'm setting up a Debian system for a > friend, and he uses a dial-up > modem.  It's been many years since I dealt with a > modem,

Re: dial up support

2008-07-08 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Fri,04.Jul.08, 01:48:35, Michelle Konzack wrote: >--} > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >--} > > >The gold-standard in modems is the 3Com/US Robotics Courier >--} > > >V-Everything. It works with a serial port and

Re: dial up support

2008-07-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,04.Jul.08, 01:48:35, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >The gold-standard in modems is the 3Com/US Robotics Courier > > >V-Everything. It works with a serial port and requires no drivers. It > > >also does great on noisy lines. I purchased mine off eBay for $49. > >

Re: dial up support

2008-07-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-02 14:47:16, schrieb Daniel Dalton: > So what your basically saying is there is no such thing as a serial win > modem? Oh yes, there are, but VERY rare. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Netwo

Re: dial up support

2008-07-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-02 11:00:03, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >The gold-standard in modems is the 3Com/US Robotics Courier > >V-Everything. It works with a serial port and requires no drivers. It > >also does great on noisy lines. I purchased mine off eBay for $49. > > > What's

Re: dial up support

2008-07-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take advantage of this. So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a che

Re: dial up support

2008-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take > advantage of this. > So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand > and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a cheap 56 k modem that

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:47 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:44:34PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 08:30 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > > > I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take > > > advantage of this. > > > So, my l

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/01/2008 08:55 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote: [...] And also, I looked at linmodem's site, but... can you use the standard tools with a linmodem as you would with a non-win modem? Thanks, A short answer would probably be "no," but it depends upon what you mean by standard tools. My modem re

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:44:34PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 08:30 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take > > advantage of this. > > So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand > >

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 08:30 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take > advantage of this. > So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand > and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a cheap 56 k modem that will >

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:16:00PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > http://cgi.ebay.com/Lucent-Venus-Chip-56K-PCI-Hardware-Modem-Windows-Linux_W0QQitemZ270251017380QQihZ017QQcategoryZ16145QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > Now that wasn't so hard, was it? No, I know how to do an ebay search, I wa

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/01/2008 05:30 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take advantage of this. So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. [...] Go to http://www.Linmodems.org/ ; they have a scanModem tool that can help you find drivers for it ; I was a

Re: dial up support

2008-07-01 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:30:45 +1000 Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take > advantage of this. > So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand > and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-09 Thread Mark Grieveson
Thanks for all the great suggestions for the dial up connection. The computer is an old laptop that I'm setting up for my mom (an IBM Thinkpad 770, with MS-DOS and Mom's beloved WordPerfect 5.1 on one partition, and Abiword, with xfce4, on the other partition), with a dial-up connection. I wen

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up > connection for xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp. mv /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot and set the ppp options to persist and to automatically redail if the connection is lost. Us

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-09 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:37 -0500 Mark Grieveson wrote: > I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. I've been using wvdial for many years. This command enabled it to be run as user: chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd I just did not have Debian at that time, so I can't check this. Not 100% sure

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:49:25PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that c

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Doug. writes: > I think dip is for users who may "dial ip" e.g. establish a ppp link... It's named after the old dip program. > ...and dialout is for users who may "dial out" anything. Connecting to a remote computer via a modem and terminal emulator program was once the only reason most users n

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to > serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic signific

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to > serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic signific

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:11:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > > > xfce? > > > > Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wra

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic significance only. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > > xfce? > > Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wrapper around pon and poff. > Configure PPP with pppconfig. > > Andrew Sackville-Wes

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Charlie writes: > Also to allow the user to connect and disconnect # adduser dip Pppconfig can take care of this. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > xfce? Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wrapper around pon and poff. Configure PPP with pppconfig. Andrew Sackville-West writes: > what group is pppd? I think you can just add yourself to the dial

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 09/01/07, Mark Grieveson wrote: I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user it states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions. I've checked, and regular users have read permission, with the program being labelled executable. Does it n

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:37:44PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection > for xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp. I saw you on xfce list... but couldn't come up with a thing to help. its amazing how much text affec

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 12:37, Mark Grieveson sent this for all our perusal: >---> Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up > connection for xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp. ---> >---> I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user >

Re: Dial-up modem terminal........

2006-08-31 Thread M-L
On Friday 01 September 2006 11:11, M-L shared this with us all: >--> Using pon to dial my external Maestro Woomera modem, I don't know how to > bring --> up a terminal to talk to it in Debian etch. >--> >--> When using KPPP I could get into a modem terminal window. With pon, I > have no --> idea. >

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-21 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:49:14 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- Yes, I've tried that, but no joy. >|--- >|--- > Also try to connect with a terminal >|--- > program such as minicom. Sometimes you can find clues to the problem by >|--- > entering and watching everything as it happe

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 marc wrote: > = > chat script > > # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.3.10. > # Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them. > # > # ispauth PAP > # abortstring > ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DI

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-18 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:54:53 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- Charlie said... >|--- > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:36:54 +0100 >|--- > marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- > >|--- > >|--- John Hasler said... >|--- > >|--- > Marc writes: >|--- > >|--- > > Any suggestions on h

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:36:54 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- John Hasler said... >|--- > Marc writes: >|--- > > Any suggestions on how to improve things? >|--- > >|--- > Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and start ppp with 'pon' and >|--- > stop it with 'poff'. Po

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-16 Thread M-L
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:26:37 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- The modem on the new laptop is dialing and exchanging with the ISP. >|--- Then, 24 times out of 25, all I get is 'NO CARRIER'. Very, very >|--- occasionally, I connect >|--- >|--- I've tried both wvdial and KPPP in

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Marc writes: > Any suggestions on how to improve things? Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and start ppp with 'pon' and stop it with 'poff'. Post the results and the output of the 'plog' command. Be precise and complete. Give complete and exact commands and complete and exact error m

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Thomas Beresford
ernel? - Original Message - From: Marvin Stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:04:32 -0400 To: Subject: Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel And after shutting down the eth0 or whatever. Do a new dialout, if you have a result like $ cat /etc/

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Thomas Beresford
em? - Original Message - From: Marvin Stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:42:48 -0500 To: Thomas Beresford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel > Which driver does your modem use? > Are you sure you actually C

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Check for new drivers at the nvidia.com Thomas Beresford wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Which driver does your modem use? Are you sure you actually CONNECT to the ISP Compare: # ping 30.57.4.70 64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=239.2 ms 64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=240.0 ms 64 bytes from 130.57.4.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=230.0 ms 64 bytes from 1

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Beresford writes: > There´s no error message in the dialup connection neither, it connects > normally to the ISP but I can´t navigate. What do you mean by "can't navigate"? Please be specific. -- John Hasler You may treat this work as if it [EMAIL PROTECTED] were

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread Thomas Beresford
- Original Message - From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:38:39 +0200 To: Thomas Beresford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel Thomas, what is the error message you receive? Raymond Thomas Beresford wrote: Hell

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread ray
Thomas, what is the error message you receive? Raymond Thomas Beresford wrote: I forgot to tell you.. The old kernel version was the default one that comes with debian installarion. I upgraded it to 2.6.3-1-k7 because I have an AMD Athlon processor. Also, I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 video ca

Re: Dial up problems when upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2004-04-03 Thread Thomas Beresford
I forgot to tell you.. The old kernel version was the default one that comes with debian installarion. I upgraded it to 2.6.3-1-k7 because I have an AMD Athlon processor. Also, I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 video card and I´ve just figured out that the X is not working and I´ve tried to use

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2004-04-03 Thread Thomas Beresford
I forgot to tell you.. The old kernel version was the default one that comes with debian installarion. I upgraded it to 2.6.3-1-k7 because I have an AMD Athlon processor. Also, I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 video card and I´ve just figured out that the X is not working and I´ve tried to use

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent said: So, post the complete contents of /etc/network/interfaces. Also post the output of "ifconfig". Also post the nic-related output of "lspci". And perhaps post the output of "lsmod". If you say so: The /etc/network/interfaces file as it currently stands

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent, Sorry, I should have included this question in the previous post, and forgot: Will pump run at all if dhcp is not enabled in /etc/network/interfaces? Because eth0 will *not* come up at all with dhcp enabled there. So pump is not normally being called up anyway, right? (Since eth0 is

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent said: >So, post the complete contents of /etc/network/interfaces. >Also post the output of "ifconfig". >Also post the nic-related output of "lspci". >And perhaps post the output of "lsmod". If you say so: The /etc/network/interfaces file as it currently stands (the only way it will come u

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, Thanks yet again. Sorry if I was not clear. I *did* run: ps ax | grep -E 'dhcp|pump' exactly that way. What it produced in response was, exactly: 233pts/0 S 0:00 grep -E dhcp|pump I don't know what that means, but if I am understanding you correctly, it means pu

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent West wrote: >You need single quotes around the 'dhcp|pump' part: > >>ps ax | grep -E 'dhcp|pump' >> >> 215 ?S 0:00 pump -i eth0 > >If you still don't get something like the above, then pump is not running. > >It's _probably_ some sort of configuration problem, but just to >

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, Thank you again for your response. To answer your questions: Do you have other machines getting dhcp addresses on this LAN? Or better yet, can you throw a Knoppix CD in the computer and see if it gets an address? (There may be some sort of hardware/cabling/networ

re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent, Thank you again for your response. To answer your questions: >Do you have other machines getting dhcp >addresses on this LAN? Or better >yet, can you throw a Knoppix CD in the >computer and see if it gets an >address? (There may be some sort of >hardware/cabling/network issue.) I hav

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:15:07AM -0500, mmissett wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied. I didn't want to > weigh down my first post with a lot of info that > might have been irrelevant (such as all the > things I did that didn't work). To supply the Hi again, it is very important to hav

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, The changes you suggested to /etc/network/interfaces are definitely not working. With the file configured that way, "/etc/init.d/networking start" returns "operation failed". So does "ifup eth0". I should also mention that I had never made changes to the loopback

re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Kent, The changes you suggested to /etc/network/interfaces are definitely not working. With the file configured that way, "/etc/init.d/networking start" returns "operation failed". So does "ifup eth0". I should also mention that I had never made changes to the loopback portion of the f

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent West said: "the appropriate under-the-hood processes take place." Well, unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. In fact, ifup would not work at all with /etc/network/interfaces configured like that . The following is exactly what I did to /etc/network/inte

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Kent West said: "the appropriate under-the-hood processes take place." Well, unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. In fact, ifup would not work at all with /etc/network/interfaces configured like that . The following is exactly what I did to /etc/network/interfaces: # ifac

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Thanks again to everybody for their answers. My /etc/network/interfaces file is: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installat

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Thanks again to everybody for their answers. My /etc/network/interfaces file is: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network,

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread David Z Maze
"mmissett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/network/interfaces has the following: first, it says the > connection is static, which it isn't, it's DHCP. First off, I'd try fixing that. Run 'ifdown eth0', replace the current eth0 stanza with 'iface eth0 inet dhcp', then run 'ifup eth0' and see w

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: /etc/network/interfaces has the following: I'd recommend you actually post the file, rather than describing it. first, it says the connection is static, which it isn't, it's DHCP. It says the address is 192.168.1.1 (The Mac OS, on which the connection is working fine, says

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Thanks to everyone who replied. I didn't want to weigh down my first post with a lot of info that might have been irrelevant (such as all the things I did that didn't work). To supply the information that was asked for, however: /etc/network/interfaces has the following: first, it says the

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:18:12PM -0500, mmissett wrote: > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/12/03 17:22), mmissett wrote: > > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have just changed the

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable int

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:22:51 -0500, mmissett wrote: > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but > I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a > powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed th

Re: Dial-up connection for server

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Willem-Jan Meijer said: > Hello, > > My neigbours wants to set-up a linux-server for backing up important files. > If it's possible he wants to set-up a LAN with the server as firewall. He > uses a dial-up connection so the question is: Is it possible to use the > serv

Re: Dial Up Machine Configuration

2002-05-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:05:13PM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote: [snip] > Consider for example a time server. I would like to have it running to > provide time synchronisation for all my machines, so I would like it > to start at boot. However, I do not want it to dial up regularly, > which would sug

Re: Dial Up Machine Configuration

2002-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Dave Whiteley writes: > Consider for example a time server. I would like to have it running to > provide time synchronisation for all my machines, so I would like it to > start at boot. However, I do not want it to dial up regularly, which > would suggest that I should start it up at dial up. Use

Re: dial-up problems as user

2002-03-29 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 16:34, Gabrile-Lucia Loch wrote: > I have Debian 2.2r2 instaled on my machine as workstation. > My connection to internet is dial-up to IP and I set it up with wvdial. > It work fine as root. > As user I always get the message: > -> Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > Does this [multilink ppp] require ISP support as well? Yes. It is, of course, quite possible to run two or more seperate ppp connections at once without multilink, but multilink bonds them together and makes them look like a single connection with twice the bandwidth. --

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:04:46AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Osamu Aoki writes: > > I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond) for windows and ISP > > service to use them as a bundle to get ISDN like speed. I remember > > seeing Netcomm being one of the supporting ISP.

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Osamu Aoki writes: > I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond) for windows and ISP > service to use them as a bundle to get ISDN like speed. I remember > seeing Netcomm being one of the supporting ISP. I thought you found a > way for Linix to bundle 2 dial-up connections. That's called 'mu

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
> By "dual connection" I meant dual simultaneous connections. E.g.: > dialing up from my laptop while my desktop is already connected to my > ISP. Rather than blocking this action, Earthlink charges $1/hr for the > simultaneous connection. I see. I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond)

Re: Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:30:12AM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:07:09AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Earthlink are a nationwide network -- you can dial in from just about > > anywhere. Pay an extra $1 for each hour you're running a dual > > connect

Re: Dial up internet provider in Greater Hartford area?

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:46:39AM -0800, Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My current free subscription to MSN will expire shortly. I was never > able to connect using Linux through that service and obviously they > would provide no support to me. Can anyone recommend a dial up > interne

Re: Dial up internet provider in Greater Hartford area?

2001-11-23 Thread mark
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:46:39AM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: > My current free subscription to MSN will expire > shortly. I was never able to connect using Linux > through that service and obviously they would provide > no support to me. Can anyone recommend a dial up > internet service provider

Re: dial-up

2000-07-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Chris Mason wrote: > > I'd like to add one dial-up access modem to my firewall machine. What do I > need to install to the machine to allow dial-up access? > mgetty, pppd, & a modem!

Re: Dial-up access

2000-05-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> How do I give dial-up access to standard users accounts? > add them to the dip group. ps: this question should be added to the list-faq. *gg* -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: Dial UP networking

1999-10-06 Thread Oki DZ
Martin Fields wrote: > > I am new to linux, and I had previously had MSN. Is there anyway for me to > use msn through linux? If MSN uses PAP for authenticating the users, I think all you need is appending : ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote in your /etc/ppp/options and putting your MSN use

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
eferen1 wrote: > > This is a follow up to my previous message. > I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed > FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the > details; > > 1. I have MS Network. The local provider provides the IP address. >

Re: Dial-up problem (fwd)

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
not.shown": ; Subject: Re: Dial-up problem On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, eferen1 wrote: > This is a follow up to my previous message. > I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed > FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, eferen1 wrote: > This is a follow up to my previous message. > I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed > FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the > details; > > 1. I have MS Network. The local provider provide

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-10 Thread john
eferen1 writes: > I have tried several times to establish a dial-up connection but nothing > has worked. MSN is my provider. They have a server assigned IP > address. Because of this, I'm sure it does not connect. Exactly what have you tried and exactly what happened? Have you run pppconfig? We

RE: Dial up conections

1998-10-07 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Look at the pppconfig package (to find it's full path, grep for it in /var/lib/dpkg/available). It has a configuration that pretty much should get your manual modem connection working - assuming that the OS can communicate with your modem just fine (ie, your certain your modem is at /dev/ttyS1 or

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 09:11:56AM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I highly reccommend the program 'expect' which is sort of an extension to > TCL. I've used it with great success. expect is available as a debian > package. It takes up a lot of hard disk space (for me, 1 meg is a lot), but I gue

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 10:57:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for dial up PPP > > scripts. Any suggestions. > > 'Expect' is the usual suggestion for this, though I've never needed it. The problem with 'Expect' is that it takes up a lot o

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I highly reccommend the program 'expect' which is sort of an extension to TCL. I've used it with great success. expect is available as a debian package. Adam Klein wrote: > I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for > dial up PPP scripts. Any suggestions. > > Adam Klein -- Jens B. Jo

Re: Dial-up users on local subnet

1997-11-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Steven Tonnesen wrote: > > I am using Debian linux boxes as firewalls at various schools and I have > come across one minor irritation: > > Dial-up users dial in to an NT server which is on the same subnet as the > linux boxes and which gives ip addresses to the dialup users that are in > the sam

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