Dialup from a fedora machine
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Jul 29 23:51:12 UTC 2009
Stuart McGraw wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a bit of an emergency. I just lost
> my regular medium speed internet connection and
> am going to need to use dialup until I can buy
> some replacement equipment.
>
> So I am trying to setup ppp/dialup (anyone remember
> that? :-) on my Fedora 11 machine (something I did
> years ago in FC4 days). I have a USR-5610B modem
> in a pci slot. But Fedora seems not to notice it --
> when I reboot Anaconda fails to notice any new device
> and I see no /dev/modem.
>
> Not sure what to check. I think the modem is ok as
> I have two of them and the same problem with both.
> AFAIK, the modem is real modem, not one of those
> Win-modem things.
>
> Is there anything special I need to do to make Fedora
> aware of this thing?
>
Believe it or not, network manager can create a dialup connection.
The big thing is specifying the correct modem device. (After making
sure the modem works in Linux...) Before you can create a dialup
connection, you have to add your modem to the hardware list.
I am not running F11 on this machine, so if you need specific
instructions, let me know and I will fire up the laptop.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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