From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqY3k-0001W4-At for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:13:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67FAjjI017492; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:10:45 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67F6gJb015036 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:06:42 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o1so99212nzf for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:07:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cqajLZzwp/HekJ4+oJaNbjxsrOc5+sy04jdO4NOVBtxb7lDTJuqGh0AIC/PY07lfDcWRN+lSVKMh9IEWurJZXrmFx92KjsMXV8VOXuZ9V0XB77d7sYmEEGAAzOWsaYzk2ZMVmqB7rHFp5NFOt3ToO6LAcUDlZhGZPtMDeiSvKy8= Received: by 10.36.50.11 with SMTP id x11mr266825nzx; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.105.11 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f105070708075c3d5702@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:07:44 +0300 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My winmodem works on linux-on-laptops.com In-Reply-To: <342e1090507061212d9c0954@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f105070609066d548fa@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090507061212d9c0954@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j67F6gJb015036 X-Archives-Salt: 1c45d732-bc1c-4656-962a-f2d0905e2ef6 X-Archives-Hash: 8bd9d609eee7559e37a853274868930b > I'm not sure here (but someone will point if I'm mistaken), but ppp > init script is intend to bring up adsl based connections, while you > need a dialler to connect dial-up, back in the days I had dial-up I > used minicom, and later kppp to handle this... In fact, you need to > set your device (usually /dev/modem) and use a program to dial using > that modem, this will create the ppp0 interface for you, and also > (most of them) will set is as the default route. Any server with > dial-up has configurations, and that's what your ISP have in their > script, you just find them out and put the same config at your dialer. Thanks Daniel, I'm really strung out here. I do have the net.ppp0 interface now. Maybe I just need to emerge and utilize minicom? How can I do that when all I have is a Gentoo system that can't get online and an XP system that can dial up? - Grant > On 7/6/05, Grant wrote: > > Hello! My Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop is reported to have a working > > winmodem with Slackware here: > > > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html -> > > http://www.angelfire.com/linux/t_johnson/ > > > > According to the article, the modem's driver can be built into the kernel via: > > > > Sound -> > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture -> > > PCI Devices -> > > Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD MC97 Modem (EXPERIMENTAL) > > > > I have ppp_generic and ppp_async built as modules and autoloaded. I > > have slmodem emerged, but is that necessary with the kernel driver? I > > have net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r10 emerged like this: > > > > -activefilter > > -atm > > -dhcp > > -ipv6 > > -mppe-mppc > > +pam > > > > When I try to '/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start' I get: > > > > * Bringing ppp0 up ... > > SIOCDELRT: No such process [ ok ] > > > > but I don't hear any dialing and subsequent ping attempts just say > > "unknown host". Also, a subsequent '/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 stop' says: > > > > * Bringing ppp0 down ... > > * Interface seems to be down already [ ok ] > > > > I can get rid of the 'SIOCDELRT: No such process' error if I change to: > > > > DEFROUTE="no" > > > > in '/etc/conf.d/net.ppp0'. That option is defined as "Must pppd set > > the default route?". > > > > Lastly, I need to use a special script that my ISP (GlobalDialUp.com) > > provides. How can I incorporate that? > > > > If I can get this working my troubles will be over! > > > > - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list