net access under Linux progress and questions

[Saqib Shaikh]

i am considering buying a pci modem, which one did you get?
saqib
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt at megsinet.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 5:06 AM
Subject: net access under Linux progress and questions


> Hello all,
>
> For those who are interested, I have a progress report and a few
questions.  To make a long story short, I finally managed to locate some
documentation for the pctel modem driver under linux (how about that).  It
turns out that my type of pctel modem is not supported by the driver (it
only seems to support 2 main types).  After not much thinking, I went this
morning to buy a rather expensive (but probably worth it) pci hardware
modem. Since this morning, I managed to set up ppp, and can dial my ISP.  I
can telnet, ftp, use lynx and the works (or so it seems).  The only thing I
can't do is send or receive e-mail.  Could someone please let me know how to
get started with sendmail/fetchmail? I don't want anything fancy, just to be
able to get mail from and send mail to my ISP'S mail server. Sendmail itself
appears to be installed correctly since I can send mail to user at localhost
without a problem.  Also, I noticed that when I'm using lynx off-line and
type a url, it doesn't bri!
> ng up my ppp script to dial my ISP.  How do I fix that.  Thanks for any
help in advance.
> Greg
>
> P.S.  So far, I like the way linux handles internet as opposed to
windblows.
>
>
>
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