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Grant wrote: |
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>>>>I'm not sure here (but someone will point if I'm mistaken), but ppp |
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>>>>init script is intend to bring up adsl based connections, while you |
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>>>>need a dialler to connect dial-up, back in the days I had dial-up I |
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>>>>used minicom, and later kppp to handle this... In fact, you need to |
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>>>>set your device (usually /dev/modem) and use a program to dial using |
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>>>>that modem, this will create the ppp0 interface for you, and also |
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>>>>(most of them) will set is as the default route. Any server with |
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>>>>dial-up has configurations, and that's what your ISP have in their |
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>>>>script, you just find them out and put the same config at your dialer. |
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>>>Thanks Daniel, I'm really strung out here. I do have the net.ppp0 |
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>>>interface now. Maybe I just need to emerge and utilize minicom? How |
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>>>can I do that when all I have is a Gentoo system that can't get online |
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>>>and an XP system that can dial up? |
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>>There are two options: |
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>>1. Network the two machines (via Ethernet, FireWire...) and set up |
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>>Internet Connection Sharing on XP. Tell the Gentoo box to use the XP |
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>>box as its gateway and DNS server. Make sure both machines use the IP |
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>>range 192.168.0.x/255.255.255.0, the XP one being 192.168.0.1. |
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>>2. Sneaker net--use emerge -fpu whatever 2> |
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>>/mnt/removablemedia/download.txt, and then bring download.txt to Windows |
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>>and use the Windows version of wget to get the files that you need. |
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>>Then copy them over to the Gentoo box. |
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>>I wrote a Wiki article on networkless installs. You might find that |
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>>helpful. |
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>>http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Networkless_stage1_Install |
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>>Colin |
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>Ok, thanks Colin. I'm ready to do this to get minicom but are you |
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>sure that is the missing piece of my puzzle? I've asked about getting |
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>dial-up working before and slmodem and ppp were the only mentioned |
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>emerges. /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 sure looks like it's a configuration |
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>file for normal dial-up connections. It asks for a phone number to |
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>dial and everything. Please confirm that I really need minicom and I |
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>will dig into that. |
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I don't know about that. I've never used dial-up under Linux. But if |
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things aren't working now, minicom might fix it. |
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Colin |
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