Opening a Dial-Up Connection in RedHat 9
 

Hi

My problem:
I am not able to open a dial-up connection to the internet in RedHat 9. I use the Dial-Up connection wizard to create a new connection. But once it is created I have to go the Network Devices wizard/or something! and then click on the connection icon and click on Activate to connect to the dial-up connection.

Do I need to install any other package to connect just like in WIntel machines.

Thanks in advance...

Hello.

Sorry I don't quite understand your question. But this is how I connect to my Internet Provider....

I used 'neat' or 'redhat-config-network' to create a modem dial up account which gets named ppp0.

Whenever i want to connect to the net I basically open up a terminal window and type 'ifup ppp0', which dials me up and connects me. When I want to disconnect I do the same but type 'ifdown ppp0'.

Thats the way I do it. The other way is open 'neat' each time and click on your ppp connection and press the 'Activate' button.

Hope this helps.
Regs
Craig :)

If you installed the KDE packages just open
kppp
and setup the phone number, username, and password

Easiest way I know to get connected with Linux :D

Hi

I am able to connect ok. But I am connecting as a normal user. But once I connect I am not able to browse into any sites, or check my mail. Maybe something is wrong with the way I configured it.

Your advice requested.

I had the same problem with Mandrake 9.2 which also left out the KPPP and uses the setup page. I made a description and testing the modem, putting the KPPP ikon on the desktop etc.
There's little difference than with RH so look at the pointer.

www.orpington.lug.org.uk/modems
:Pengy: :Pengy: :Pengy:

sounds like the DNS isn't setup correctly, did you enter a primary DNS server in the configuration? what error message(s) are you getting when trying to navigate to web-sites?

dialup
 

Right click on taskbar in blank area- select add to panel-modemlights - left click on modem lights- this should install box on your taskbar that allows you to connect internet. Right click on modem light applet - select preferences- select advanced- if ttyS? is different from what yor modem port is thn change it to correct number. If you don't know what port linux is seeing your modem on , at terminal type in "wvdialconf newconffile" don't use quotation marks - this will tell you where your modem is - also check in network device control under hardware- edit to see that ttyS? is set to proper number -Good luck

I repeat if you look at the site to get your modem working
www.orpinton.lug.org.uk/modems it will show you how to get your modem working.

I really do mean modem not so called passive devices that need drivers before
some would call modems -others call winmodems- I fear many are miss-sold devices that need Windoze to workthe rest of the missed modem functions and are passive chips devices
require your code and time to add the missing processor/functionality.

In the point over dns mentioned. You can check if it is a dns problem -though you shouldn't need to as the dns is almost always automatic using the dhcp standard protocol -unless you have diabled this. If you connect directly to a site with it's ip address - a number-, but cannot with the site's domain name, you most likely you do not have a dhcp configured, or you have disabled it.

If you want to find a sites number you need to ping from a properly configured machine to the domain name of the site (with a terminal) the reply gives you the ip number. Your own site is locally usually 127.0.0.1 (localhost), or your number/s provided by your ip, try them?

Perhaps' it is a good idea to have a list of a few ip numbers for sites rather than the domain names?