Hi ive just started using linux, im running Fedora core 3 i think but i have no idea how to get aol running on linux, can anyone help me with this.

any help will be much appreciated (if i can spell it)

hi,

AOL dialup has been tricky in the past (i think the problem has been addressed now..), but broadband shouldn't present too much difficulty, I don't think.

what sort of modem have you got? USB? With that info, we'll be in a better position to help - if it's USB, you're going to need to find and install a driver, if one is available...

With hardware sorted, it's then a relatively straightforward case of configuring things to AOL's settings.

yeah im using the standard USB modem which came with aol dont know the model at the moment will find out.

Chears for your reply as long as it is a possibility then i can throw my XP in the bin where it belongs thanks again

Hi Tregg,
Good luck! I have the BT voyager 105, and got the driver from
http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/
(make sure you use the 'nortek' alpha version. This works well. There
is a binary synch file - no. '03' works for me in Oxfordshire.

For the aol access, I can connect if I used a 'corrupt' username which I
got from a sniff of the 'xp' connection.
In my case it is:
aolnet/aol.dsl.SCREENNAME.10460001001000030001GB6183.0000.prod

Now I can get a ppp session up using the first or second options which
gives local and remote IPs and a DNS server. But I cannot access them
The only one I can reliably access is, if my local IP is WW.XX.YY.ZZ, then
I can ping WW.XX.YY.1
Occasionally I can also access the DNS server they gave me, and do DNS
lookup. That feels encouraging. But it is only 1 connection in 5.

At this point I think I need to find a way to use 'pengy' or something
like it to produce the P3 protocol AOL use. The XP connection has a complicated
two-channel system, which I think this might duplicate. But so far I am stuck
here.

I would love to hear if anyone has ideas or good news..
Bill

hi,

interesting - so AOL broadband uses their own protocol, like AOL dialup...

oh dear. the only other suggestion i've got here is that Linspire have developed an AOL dialer to work with AOL dialup - perhaps it might be possible to cobble something together from this; i don't know - i'm not a software developer and i haven't any experience with AOL either!!

Good luck!

Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the tip on the Linspire dialer. I had missed that. But I notice
that even in their own screen shots the phrase:

Removing stale PID file /var/run/penggy.pid

appears. So this must be a gui on top of penggy. No harm in
that, penggy is a good dialup system, but it probably won't add much.

Cheers,
Bill

chears for your reply Bill i will give it a shot if i get any thurther than you have then i will tell you what i have found out i have seen that it is quite a problem for aol users who want to use linux hopefully we will find a solution

thanks

tregg

Hi there,
I did it!

I used 'ethereal' on XP and Linux to sniff incoming and outgoing, and
hacked the 'penggy' code and have made it. There are many problems:
* Weird username sniffed by hand
* My CPU is 100% busy in 'penggy' (but at low priority)
* My 'route' had to be fixed by hand.

But...it works. Basically I only added a UDP exchange into penggy;
the existing code did the rest.

Good-oh.
Bill

I have FC3 kernel 2.6.10. FC3 couldn't detect my LT/Agere Systems PCI Soft Modem. AOL detected the modem in WinXP on my Dual OS system (Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.10/WinXP Home Edition). I was given an rpm by this guy who sold me the computer, but it doesn't work.

Hi Trien27,
Winmodems are usually a bit tricky; Fedora ships no drivers
for them for concerns that might infringe something.

Have a look for your modem at:

http://www.linmodems.org

and the 'scanmodem' script from there is recommnded if it isn't clear to you what you have.
Bill