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. -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- [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
