HellBender Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 22, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellBender Posted January 22, 2004 Author Share Posted January 22, 2004 Ah, kppp.. I'll try that, thank you! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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