Getting Dialup Working

[Deedra Waters]

oops, I replied to the wrong message, sorry


On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

> I did get my networking fixed. I did end up using static ips for both eth1
> and the laptop.
> 
> To be perfectly honest, the problem I had mor then anything, was hearing
> five different things from five different people, and not knowing enough
> about it to decide who to listen to and who not to. I'd read the manpages
> and documentation, but didn't understand them, and couldn't figure out how
> to do things.
> 
> I'm not critisizing anyone by any means, I'm just saying that it's hard to
> follow advice when you're told different things.
> 
> I will say this though, thank you to the people who got me straightened
> out.:)
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Are we actually going to write a now what howto? I'd like to contribute if
> > we did.
> > 
> > Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows!
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 
> > > Ah, wonderful. Guess I might have read the wvdial man page!
> > > <grin>
> > >
> > > I'm keeping this message for the next HOWTO. I'm inspired that we
> > > need a "Now What" HOWTO.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, some comments here. There is a much easier way to configure wvdial than
> > > > Janina used.
> > > >
> > > > As root simply type:
> > > >
> > > > wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
> > > >
> > > > wvdial in 99% of the time will find, configure your modem, and all you need
> > > > do is add your phone number, user name, and password.
> > > > If the probe fails then you will have to go with Janina's earlier
> > > > instructions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
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