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.