Dialup in Gentoo


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Its a total noob question, I know.

But I have no idea how to access the Internet in Gentoo through dialup. Gentoo came with an adsl pppoe setup script, so I used that for my DSL... Can anyone tell me how to dialup in Gentoo?

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I have never done dial-up in Linux (lucky high-bandwidth user ;)), but first thing is to make sure your modem is supported.

That is, if you have a real modem, it *is* supported. But if you have a WinModem, then you need to check for support.

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I've always used a program called wvdial to setup dialup in linux. As long as your modem is supported it will work. You just run the configuration program and it creates /etc/wvdial.conf. Then you can add your username and password to the conf file. It's easy to setup and use in scripts or whatever.

Also you can try kppp, a KDE frontend to ppp.

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If you want to do it the "Gentoo way," emerge ppp and edit /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 to your liking. Then run "/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start" to start the connection. I like doing it that way because I could have it dial at startup (rc-update add net.ppp0 default) since it is handled as a service.

Thank God I have cable now!

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