[nmglug] dial up

[Brian O'Keefe]

I'm confused here,
So did you go to System>Administration>Network? That should have brought
up the Network Settings panel. In that you can enable ethernet, wireless
or dial-up. You have to unlock it to change settings and for that you
need an administrator's password.that was why I sent the links and info
from my searches. Assuming that you can open the settings with a
password then you can go into the dial-up settings, or as Ubuntu calls
it "point to point" and there you can set all of the PPP and other
parameters. whether or not that will work is beyond me as I don't even
try to use dial-up anymore. I don't see why this won't work though as
all the modem settings are in there. You may need ndswrapper or some
other stuff to get your modem to work and there are tons of threads
about that on the ubuntu forums (ubuntuforums.org) where I get most of
my help, as well as from NMGLUG.
Some screenshots:


 On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:06 -0600, akaluta at zianet.com wrote:
> Brian:
> Thanks for your several helpful replies.I have logged in a setup the 
> perameters for dialup.The advice I the site suggested the method of starting 
> the dialup application would be to use gnome-modem?
> gnome-modem did not appear in the internet menu,doing a program 
> search,produced the program ,but locked me out with no root signin 
> option,thus my plea for help.I believe I have found the soloution to the 
> lockout.What appeared was the icon and not the program.which is not on the 
> program list,nor is gnome-ppp.I am trying to bootstrap my self onto the 
> internet,with the little knowledge and the choices of which I am 
> aware,couple more things to try,think that pon in and out may be 
> possible.Anyway stumbling along,liberally mixed with bouts of 
> discouragement,in other word a common linux quandry as I know it.Thanks for 
> your good words. Best Regards,Anthony K 
> 
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