Dialup

[Thomas W. Cranston]

Edward Dekkers wrote:

> Thomas W. Cranston wrote:
>
>> Has anyone successfully configured a dialup connection with the modem 
>> configured to  ttyS4, and  PAP authentification. If so, could you 
>> give me explicit instructions on how to do it.
>>
>>
>
> Have a look at /etc/wvdial.conf. Change the "Modem =" line to whatever 
> tty you want.
>
> OR IF (as it is on my system), the line says "Modem = /dev/modem",
>  then you need to check the symbolic link /dev/modem to see whether it 
> actually points to /dev/ttyS4.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not going to spend a lot of time in this e-mail getting 
> explicit, as all the information regarding basic text editing and 
> symbolic links are covered at these places:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html (love this one - got me 
> started learning linux years and years ago).
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/index.html
>
> etc, etc, etc
>
> Good luck and post back if you aren't understanding anything in these 
> references for clarification.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.

Has you successfully configured a dialup connection with the modem 
configured to  ttyS4?