[Gllug] Can't connect to the Internet.

[Mark Preston]

Dermot Moynihan(dermoyn at onetel.net.uk)@Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:21:10PM 
+0000:
 > I bought my first ever Linux OS Saturday: SUSE 8.1 Pro. Well, after
 > spending all day yesterday trying to get my external modem, which it 
 >has recognised, and which appears to work, to dial my ISP's number and 
 >get me access to the Internet, and failing dismally, I'm at my wits 
 >end. The modem does work - I have Mandrake on another H/D and I 
checked >it there and I was able to get on the Internet no problem.

Why not just stick Mandrake on?
Here's the references to two excellent articles on how to use command 
line tools alone to connect to the internet under Linux.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5448
and
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5467

They also explain how to set things up to view the logs for 
connection/error messages.
If you are really struggling they may help. FWIW Mandrake uses kppp
and I think Suse uses wvdial. You can just use pppd chat and minicom as 
described in these articles.

Regards,
Mark Preston


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