Dear Blann,
We do thank you for this positive success report.
I just would like to add two remarks:
The username syntax VZ/smith applies to any dialler program, not only to
wvdial, it is certainly part of the instructions given by your ISP verizon.
The very fact that you found the DNS address nameserver 198.6.100.150
in the wvdial log is an obvious proof that your ISP verizon does supply
a DNS address in the login procedure.
Therefore, I am almost certain (I am humane, hence the "almost") that
you do not need to plug it in /etc/resolv.conf but rather to add a line
Auto DNS = yes
in your /etc/wvdial.conf
The advantage is that you then do not need to adjust the addresses in
/etc/resolv.conf every time you connect to some other ISP or Local Area
Network (LAN).
While you are right that any number of nameserver lines may be inserted
in /etc/resolv.conf - making it tempting to store all DNS addresses for
all services which one may use - the price is the time wasted waiting
because the addresses are used in the order in which they are stored,
where the next one will be tried once the current out will have timed out.
Thanks for your contribution - Jacques
blann wrote:
With great help from Mr. Stodolsky, I got the intel537EP to connect in
an FC6 OS.
I found that with the verizon dial-up, I had to enter user name 'smith'
as VZ/smith
in the wvdial.conf file.
After getting the dial-up connection to authenticate, there are
additional steps to get
the web browser to recognize this- nearly as I can tell. Following
advice in an old
RH4 linux reference, I checked the files /etc/host.conf and
/etc/resolv.conf
The host.conf was correct:
order hosts,bind
multi on
However, the resolv.conf was empty, and had to be changed, needing at
least two lines:
search
nameserver 198.6.100.150
where the numbers are the primary DNS address, which I retrieved from
the log of the wvdial connect.
several 'nameserver ' lines may be entered. I wonder if
'incoming.verizon.net' and outgoing.verizon.net
might have been entered, but have not tried since the DNS address seemed
to work. I did enter
the incoming/outgoing addresses in configuring the email under the
server entry, and- it works.
Hope that this will be helpful, and that a more knowledgeable soul will
edit /annotate these comments
to make them-correct.
