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Huggy
09-12-2001, 06:55 PM
Hey Hey
I'm working with Linux RedHat 7.1 and one of my monitors went up in smoke so I stuck with my spair for now.
Which will not handle Xwindows 'res' so I'm using the prompt now and I have to connect to the net.
Is there a command I use to dail up my ISP from the prompt? :confused:
dial
connect
locate
how does this work?
Before I used xwindows to dial up and then I went to the prompt to do my work.
One of my friends told me it was Pon but that don't seem to work?
Malakin
09-12-2001, 07:20 PM
You could just lower the resolution that X is using...
Huggy
09-12-2001, 08:09 PM
pppd looks like its somthing but I don't know how to use it..
But how would I go around just lower the resolution?
I can't see dick all, is there a command for that aswell? :confused:
error27
09-12-2001, 08:18 PM
type "pon" to connect to the net. "poff" to disconnect.
use lynx texts web browser to read slashdot.
bugfix
09-12-2001, 08:23 PM
or 'pppon' and 'pppoff' or 'ppp-on' and 'ppp-off' depending on distribution.
Huggy
09-12-2001, 08:33 PM
none of those work people.
there is nothing in the
man
for any of them.
so lets work on the 'res' problem if I can't see anything do to the res how do I fix that?
I'll still take any ideas on dialing my ISP from the prompt.
Red Lotus
09-12-2001, 09:33 PM
In order to tamper with your resolution, type the following command:
Xconfigurator
And work everything out with all the new screens that appear. Remember that the command is case sensitive.
You probably need to be root to do this. Type:
su
And then your root password to gain temporay access to root at the terminal.
peez ;)
error27
09-12-2001, 11:55 PM
it may be that the ppp comands are not in you path.
(I don't use red hat so I'm really not 100% sure of how they do things)
type "man -k ppp" to learn what applications it uses for ppp.
You may have to install a pppd.
Huggy
09-13-2001, 06:52 PM
I think I got the fixed up with help from Red Lotus thanks you
and all the rest of you for your input. :)
I'm still looking for the command and any ideas on that subject. :p
error27
09-13-2001, 07:02 PM
if "man -k ppp" didn't return any results then that means it's not installed or your distro is not as thourough about creating man pages as debian is.
Install pppd.
(except pppd installed I'm amazed that you can get on the internet at all.)
It also may be that your distro installs the command line ppp utils as a seperate package. Though I can't imagine why.