How do I use dial-up using Mandrake 10.1?
Hi everyone and a Hapy New Year!
Please bear with my for I am a noob and am desperately trying to sort out a linux machine. I have been running mandrake 10 and using a networked PC with a shared internet connection. I have just bought a US Robotics modem off of ebay (CANT PASTE URL AS THE SITE WONT LET ME YET) but i believe the model is: USR015630B, or USR995630B I wanted to dial-up to the net directly from my machine using this modem, which I understand to be a hardware modem and hence compatible with linux. Using a madrake help page i googled, apparently I have to use a DUN program called KPPP, but I have checked everywhere on my mandrake 10.1 installation and cannot find it anywhere. Obviously I have checked under networking, settings and the like... If anyone can help, i will be eternally grateful. I have fallen in love with Mandrake and would like to have this machine capable of browsing the net independently of my windows machine. PLease bear in mind I am very new to the linux cause and might not understand the lingo just yet! Thanks abort...retry...cancel |
Hi there,
KPPP is in the gnome desktop version of M10.1. Try looking under "internet". I will check it once I get back to my Linux. (Currently using Windows because Linux does not like my modem:( Regards John |
actually I just found it on gnome and configured the dial up. It found the modem and dialled but hung up!
How do I get around this?? I also much prefer KDE, so does anyone know how to use kppp or equivalent with KDE? |
SORTED!
USed harddrake in kde to auto detect the modem and then played around with kppp. It was trying to use mnt/modem, but i changed it to look at the serial port and all seems well now. I'm using the Dial-up to type this... yay! |
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