Question, ppp.

Question, ppp.

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Red Hat comes with an really good program called wvdial.I use it for
most of my ppp stuff.
Simply, here is some simple steps.


1. Enter wvdialconf >/etc/wvdial.conf
This will attempt to find your modem, and other ppp info.
2. Open /etc/wvdial.conf in your favorite text editer, and uncomment the
phone number line, user name, and password, and put in your actual info.
3. Assuming all goes well log in as root and type wvdial &. Make sure to put
in that andpersant sign so wvdial is placed in the background.
4. To kill ppp type killall wvdial.

linking to dev cooridinates

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. Don't know if anyone has tried this with Cdrw drives, but here goes. I have not tested /dev/sr0 yet to see if I can mount the device using this file, but could I possibly create a link called cdr thatwill interface to 0,0,0? These are the coordinates that cdrecord uses to access my burner. I was thinking this just because then I could make sure that the device is going to work. Also, then put an entry in fstab, make it rw, then I can just mv stuff from the disk to Cd without using cdrecord? Is this actually possible? Thanks! 

Question, ppp.

[Anna Schneider]

Hi everyone.  I'm still here.  I got my  system awhile back and haven't 
done much with it because I've been busy and because I'm not sure where to 
start.  I don't even know what all the programs and packages and so on are 
on it, which ave lready been compiled and configured, and which are still 
sitting there.  I really don't have a clue.  Is there a way to figure this 
out?

What I would like to be able to do first on my computer is dial up.  I 
found the ppp readme, but ca't make sense of it.  I am pretty sure that my 
modem is configured so that's should be okay.  I found an online HowTo for 
determining that, but what next?  Can anyone give me any pointers?

Thanks.  Oh and if it matters, the distribution is Red Hat.

Anna