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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Surfing the web with Lynx Post 18031 by LivinFree on Friday 22nd of March 2002 08:48:19 AM
Old 03-22-2002
I've never used minicom to establish a ppp connection, but as I'm finding out, there is even more than one way! Here's one that I found in a (old) book:
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You can do this because minicom can quit without resetting your modem. This means you can use minicom to dial out, connect, and then quit, allowing you to start your PPP sessions with the pppd daemon. Here's how:

1. Run minicom
2. Type ATDT, followed by your ISP's modem number.
3. Wait for the connection, roue ISP's prompt, then log in with your username and password. (...)
4. Press Ctrl+Q to exit minicom without a modem reset.
5. From the command line, type the following:
# pppd -d detach /dev/modem &
(assuming /dev/modem is your modem device)
I don't know how close this is to what you're doing.

You could also write a chat script that will dial and start pppd for you...

If lynx can't connect, it may be that it can't resolve hosts...
look in the file /etc/resolv.conf
Does it have info for nameservers, domain and search?

Can you connect via IP address, or not even that? You may have to add a route, so packets can get out of your machine.

Try this:
lynx 64.23.37.23
If that doesn't work, try
ping 64.23.37.23
Let us know what the reults are with those commands...

I almost forgot what a hassle dialup can be, since I started using only WvDial.

Hope this helps a little.
 

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dialups(4)							   File Formats 							dialups(4)

NAME
dialups - list of terminal devices requiring a dial-up password SYNOPSIS
/etc/dialups DESCRIPTION
dialups is an ASCII file which contains a list of terminal devices that require a dial-up password. A dial-up password is an additional password required of users who access the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The correct password must be entered before the user is granted access to the computer. The set of ports that require a dial-up password are listed in the dialups file. Each entry in the dialups file is a single line of the form: terminal-device where terminal-device The full path name of the terminal device that will require a dial-up password for users accessing the computer through a modem or dial-up port. The dialups file should be owned by the root user and the root group. The file should have read and write permissions for the owner (root) only. EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample dialups file. Here is a sample dialups file: /dev/term/a /dev/term/b /dev/term/c FILES
/etc/d_passwd dial-up password file /etc/dialups list of dial-up ports requiring dial-up passwords SEE ALSO
d_passwd(4) SunOS 5.10 4 May 1994 dialups(4)
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