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  • From: "Ron Clarke" <ron AT ausreg.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Help
  • Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:39:59 +1000

Hi Folks,

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:51:55 -0800, David Moberg wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:

>> On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:39:29 -0800, David Moberg wrote:

>> Ron, if this doesn't work, do you know what the name of the
>> dialer on Peanut Linux is? You might be able to use it on
>> BL3, too.

>> From what I can see it uses PPPD,

> eznet is a user-friendly frontend for PPPD.

>> and (among other differences) it also accepts the DNS numbers
>> from the server.

> You can do this with any Linux version if your glibc supports it.
> You can try copying over /etc/resolv.conf from Peanut (after you
> make sure that you have a backup!) and if all is well, it should
> accept a DNS address from your ISP. Of course, this happens after
> you get a connection.

Yerse !

>> Steven, if I install ppp.tgz from /n2/ of SW7.1 into BL2, will I mess
>> up what is already there from a standard BL2 setup ?

> I'm not Steven, but I don't think it will. However, BL already has pppd.
> The BL2 one might even be the same as SW7. Is that version too early for
> you? Older PPPDs couldn't handle Microsoft's version of CHAP.

> Have you tried wvdial yet? If so, did it give an error message?

Does wvdial come with BL2 ? If not, what sould I look for ?

Regards,
Ron



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