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i know this sounds strange, but anyway.
i`ve just managed to connect my nokia 6310i to my laptop and using it as a modem. now, i`ve gone through the pppsetup, and everything seems to work fine. when i type ppp-on, the phone dials up and establishes a connection (according to /var/log/messages). also the phone indicates that a data call is being made.
and when i use the epiphany browser it does not display any web sites. when i use the ping command on ip adresses it seems to work fine. when i tried the lynx browser it didnt manage to connect to any websites.
this is my first time i juse a modem in linux. are there any other files i have to configure? my distro is just out of the box.
i know this question sounds a bit diffuse, but how can i verify that i`m correctly connected to my isp?
just went trough the pppsetup and it all went without problems.
but now i`m wondering what permissions the different commands should use with the ppp-on and pppd (and more??)
so you can "ping" but you cant make a "http" connection? are you pinging the same url that are attempting to make the "http" connection? hmmm... have you tried other things like "ftp" and "traceroute"? in general, i have found that if you can ping-em then usually all is well...
hello.
thanks for replies. i`ve just been a bit confused with the manual settings of my connection. but now it all seems to be ok.
now i just have to look into the sudo so that i`m able to connect without the use of root.
This should give all users access without changing sudo:
chmod 6755 /usr/sbin/ppp-on
chmod 6755 /usr/sbin/ppp-off
chmod 6755 /usr/sbin/pppd
chmod 644 /etc/ppp/options
chmod 644 /etc/ppp/pppscript
If you want to hide the ISP password info from users:
chmod 600 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
Also:
ln -s /usr/sbin/ppp- on /usr/bin/ppp-on
ln -s /usr/sbin/ppp-off /usr/bin/ppp-off
ln -s /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/bin/pppd
/usr/sbin will not be in a regular user's PATH.
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