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Re: ppp newbie question



Faisal writes:
> Well i am a user of debian potato linux i just made my first ppp script
> by pppconfig ..  now can you tell me how can i dail my connction & hungup
> my connection ?

The command pon will bring up the connection.  poff shuts it down.  gpppon
is a GUI wrapper around pon and poff, if you prefer to point and click.

> also is there a utility to detect your modem ?

I'm not sure what you mean.  pppconfig should have offered to find your
modem.

> so that my modem comes in the ifconfig -a command ?

ifconfig will show any ppp links that are up when you run it, but it knows
nothing about modems.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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