Re: Dial-up connections

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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:39:59 -0500

In article <1114141875.160274.271960@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
Dakota wrote:

>I am using red hat 9, and netzero. I know nothing about networking, and
>I would like to know how to set up a connection to netzero with red hat
>9.

Free ISPs make the money to pay the telephone bills, rent, and staff by
using advertisements. Early in the 'free ISP' period, you could just set
up a standard PAP authenticated dialin, and they wouldn't know the
difference. Then then changed protocols in some manner, and made it such
that you needed to run their (windoze) client program to get connected.

http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html

You can try to use that web page to set up a connection, and see what
hoops they want you to jump through to get connected. As a starting point,
try something like

[compton ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/dialin
#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/dialscript" \
defaultroute lock noipdefault modem nodetach /dev/modem 115200 crtscts \
user playadom debug logfile /tmp/some.file.name
[compton ~]$

There must not be anything after the \ in those two lines.

[compton ~]$ cat /etc/ppp/dialscript
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' "" AT&F1 OK ATDT2662902 CONNECT \d\c
[compton ~]$

and set up a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file that
contains:

playadom * p42Sw0rD~

BUT FIRST, correct the username and password in the dialin and *secrets
files, either make sure /dev/modem is pointing at your actual modem
device, or change the device to that where your modem is hiding, replace
the AT&F1 with AT&F0 if your modem is not a US Robotics, and put in the
correct phone number. Make the dialin script executable (chmod 755), and
see that /etc/resolv.conf has the name server data. You posted from
64.136.26.227, and the appropriate data look like

nameserver 64.136.35.145
nameserver 64.136.28.21
nameserver 64.136.20.21

>If this can not work, then please tell me about a free ISP that will
>work with linux.

I don't think there are any left. Try here

http://www.freedomlist.com/find.php3

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