connecting to Internet

[mfghazi]

What is the procedure for connecting to internet?

My modem has been detected. I've used minicom but could understand its operation.

There should be some NHF file for this.

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Ghazi, Muhammad Farhan

[i8degrees]

What environment (gnome or kde, etc) are you using? They do have a NHF on connecting with kppp (part of kde).
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/modems/kppp1.html

Kppp has always worked for me when others haven't...

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Windows for play and Linux for work.

[guitarlyn]

This kind of depends on your ISP's required startup scripts, when your modem is setup properly. Many dial-up ISP's do not support Linux at all, many do (especially small home town ones).

We're going to need to atleast know what ISP you are using before being able to give any useful information.

~Guitarlynn

[Derango]

I use MkConnect...its a simple free program that baiscly sets up a dial-up connection for you. You can check it out here:
http://mkconnect.virtualave.net/english.htm

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This space For Rent

[mfghazi]

I'm prefare gnome but can use both.

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Ghazi, Muhammad Farhan

[ColdPack]

That gnome dialer is a pain in the butt to set up.
What distro are you using? I have found that one can rely only on the command line for this stuff. KDE is touch and go depending on which version it is and, as I said, gnome is a nightmare of sorts.
If you are using Debian, just run pppconfig and fill in all the info. It works like a charm. I think the same can be said for pppsetup in slackware.
I believe in Redhat and the like you could use linuxconf to configure ppp. That's how I did it way back when... using rh5.2.
Any help there?

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