Getting Dialup Working

[Janina Sajka]

Well, there's more than one way to do it. Here's a simple way to
get you started ...

Attached to this email is a file called wvdial.conf. It goes in
your /etc directory, so you'll have to be root to mv it over
there.

You will also need to edit it. First, the simple stuff. Change
the phone number to the one you use for your isp. The number in
this file is UU_Net dial up for West Houston, Texas, because
that's where I am today. The '9,' is because I'm in a hotel and
must dial '9' to get out, and the ',' tells the modem to wait a
second (or so) before continuing to dial.

Also, put your real username and your real password in.

The tricky part is finding out what /dev/ttyS port your modem is
on. Here's how to find out, assuming you actually hear dialtone
and touchtones when your modem dials:

As root do:

echo ata >/dev/ttyS0

If that comes back with just a prompt, that's not the one. So, do
up arrow, backspace once to take the 0 off, 1 to change the
command to read:

echo ata >/dev/ttyS1

and enter. If, you get dial tone, great. If not, keep trying,
with 2, then 3, etc. You'll probably find it by 3, and you'll be
trying to figure out how to turn the darn thing off. Here's how:

echo ath >/dev/ttySX

where X is the number that actually got the dial tone, 0 1 2 or
3, whichever it turns out to be.

Now, you know how to edit that line in the wvdial.conf file.

And, you can use pico to make all these edits!

Now, to actually dial do:

wvdial &

The '&' symbol tells Linux to put the dialup job in the
background so you can have your root console back. Just press
enter and you'll get it back without killing your dialup. You may
later get some messages again on screen, just hit enter again.
You're now online.

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org
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[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyS3
Baud = 115200
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
; 
Phone = 9,2815040080
 Username = [your.username]
 Password = =[your.password]
Supid Mode = yes