Try entering
apt-get install pppconfig
and the system will probably use your cdrom since that's all you have
configured now for your package sources (if it doesn't work, you can make sure
that the cdrom source lines in /etc/apt/sources.list are uncommented)
You could also select that and any other package with dselect by doing the
following:
>From the command line as root, enter dselect and then go to install, and
search for pppconfig by entering / then pppconfig. you can mark the package
for installation by the + key, and this will probably also take care of all
the other suggested ppp stuff.
However you install it, run pppconfig as root and set up your connection. You
can then start it by entering pon, stop it by poff, or use a graphical app to
do it for you (I like to use wmppp which is written for WindowMaker - you can
install it with apt-get install wmppp)
Users other than root need to be in the dialout and dip groups (adduser x
dialout will add user x to the group dialout) to access the modem with ppp.
scott
edoc wrote:
> OK, reloaded Linux-Debian-Progeny on my uncooperative
> HP OmniBook 4100.
>
> The usual sound vs pcmcia conflict is there but I may have the
> process for resolving that from a site someone recommended.
>
> Problem right now is that Progeny seems, this time, to have "forgotten"
> to load a dialer app. (ppp and other dialers have been loaded on prior
> install attempts ... this begins to remind me state of the voodoo Apple OS
> in 1996 when their tech support would say "Try loading it again and see
> what happens, we really don't know how it works."
>
> Anyhow; with no modem access I cannot dial out and apt-get what I need.
> Shall I go the voodoo route and reinstall and hope that the code glitch(es)
> trigger the loading of at least one dialer this time?
>
> Or, can someone tell me how to get at what I need using BASH. I'd like
> to at least confirm that Progeny is playing nice with my PCMCIA devices,
> modem and nic (I know they are Linux compatible).
>
> Thanks! Doc
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