Establishing a dial up connection with Ubuntu 6.10

[maxim wexler]

> Can anyone provide some assistance or advice on how
> I can get connected?
> 

Man, I feel your pain. We dialuppers are a dying, much
abused breed :(

This is how I had to do it. Some of the details are
hazy but this gives a flavo(u)r.

Don't use kppp. IIRC it doesn't ask for a passwd; then
you get "access denied". Use pppconfig. 

You might have to use a bootCD. I forget why that was
necessary. Think it was because the bootCD knew more
about the drivers. lsmod is your friend. Oh, and
obviously, if pppconfig is not in your distro you'll
have to connect with the bootCD to get the tarball or
whatever package you like.

Make sure you choose DNS server option. pppconfig is
easy to configure and has a single page, forget the
option, which displays and allows user to edit name,
phone number, passwd etc. Once you connect(if you
connect) check the logs to find out the ip numbers
that were involved. pppconfig writes a bunch of files
to /etc/ppp(and /etc/resolv,I think), cat those to
your favo(u)rite storage medium. 

Now you got plenty info. Install pppconfig, run the
program and check what it does against what it did do.

Maxim


 
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