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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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- Grant |
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