Re: Initial installation
Thanks to all who helped. Once I knew there was a chatscript and
associated thingies, it worked swimmingly.
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* Robert Kerr *
* Robert_Kerr@byu.edu *
* http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr *
* Adam fell that men might be, *
* and men are that they might *
* have joy. 2 Nephi 2:25 *
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Robert Kerr writes:
> > I got my system to where it will boot up into Debian 1.3 and I
> > can even run dselect. I want to be able to use dpkg-ftp, but I have to
> > set up my internet connection before I can do that, right? I've looked
> > through the FAQ and the installation guide, but couldn't find anything
> > there to help me with this. Could someone point me in the right
> > direction or send a short walk-through on how to get my connection set up
> > so I can at least run dselect and get things working?
>
> There is a ppp options file and a chatscript in /etc/ that you have to
> edit. After that, you can type `pon', and it should connect, provided
> you enter the right info during network configuration.
>
> Pretty much all you have to do is set your phone number and password,
> and the right ttySx line for your modem.
>
> --
> Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com>
> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
> Portland, OR USA
> Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133
>
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