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 1DqmTD-0002qV-TX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:36:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j686ZBNj010052; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 06:35:11 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j686TAhT015164 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 06:29:11 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so172138nzb for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:29:15 -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=Fd9JZlCUZb5mHFO1yiP7RMRGBTRm2X6SJoEyD3bd9iTheOucZf7Y5L280PjM+BQMAj+EB+SFH9Aqc8dUS4NQiNJPYSYOZw/YFOfxQjtEMv+fsZDLhwr6W8dwKE5k3E2/YTdsHP3kXeGYKy8frTguM7l139s/iyWg85dky6GG8do= Received: by 10.36.50.18 with SMTP id x18mr513201nzx; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.105.11 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10507072329206dc108@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:29:15 +0300 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My winmodem works on linux-on-laptops.com In-Reply-To: <42CD7275.9080803@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> <49bf44f105070708075c3d5702@mail.gmail.com> <42CD7275.9080803@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j686TAhT015164 X-Archives-Salt: 559f1916-a5ca-459c-8844-4bfdc21d4cb1 X-Archives-Hash: caec563fac4f0c9d5f0dc4ae52f6eee6 > >>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? > > > There are two options: > > 1. Network the two machines (via Ethernet, FireWire...) and set up > Internet Connection Sharing on XP. Tell the Gentoo box to use the XP > box as its gateway and DNS server. Make sure both machines use the IP > range 192.168.0.x/255.255.255.0, the XP one being 192.168.0.1. > > 2. Sneaker net--use emerge -fpu whatever 2> > /mnt/removablemedia/download.txt, and then bring download.txt to Windows > and use the Windows version of wget to get the files that you need. > Then copy them over to the Gentoo box. > > I wrote a Wiki article on networkless installs. You might find that > helpful. > http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Networkless_stage1_Install > > -- > Colin Ok, thanks Colin. I'm ready to do this to get minicom but are you sure that is the missing piece of my puzzle? I've asked about getting dial-up working before and slmodem and ppp were the only mentioned emerges. /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 sure looks like it's a configuration file for normal dial-up connections. It asks for a phone number to dial and everything. Please confirm that I really need minicom and I will dig into that. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list