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Hi Steven:

  Yes, I am running BL3.

On 3/3/11, baslinux-request AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 21:18:54 -0600
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> Subject: [BL] Dial Up
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> Hi Steven:
>
>    Thanks for the reply.
> I have set up dialup in Linux before and I am using a serial modem, a
> USRobotics external 33.6 that I flashed to 56k, it works fine in
> Ubuntu 9.04 and several versions of Puppy Linux.
>
> I did edit the modem file and I added the DNS server numbers but there
> were other files such as /etc/host.deny the instructions it said to
> edit. My problem is that I am not real good with the command line. In
> Ubuntu {as I am0  sure you know} you open a terminal and type sudo
> gedit /etc/host.deny , in Puppy you type geany /etc/host.deny  or you
> use the Rox Filer in Puppy and and open geany with the graphical
> browser. I read that there are 2 editor in BasicLinux, one is Pico and
> the other I do not remember but I could not bring them up.
>
> Also i don't know how to physically dial once I get those files edited
> or if I need to install to the hard drive to save the configuration?
> Sorry to be so dense .
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --
> Forrest Charnock
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 21:41:04 -0600
> From: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> Subject: [BL] Dial Up
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> Thanks Sindi but the old laptop I am installing to does not have an
> internal modem. The drivers might prove useful in the future . My main
> interest in Basiclinux is to be able to give some old machines away to
> old people who can't afford a new one to send email and play
> solitaire-write letters etc. so if I could use the win modems it would
> help ..
> --
> Forrest Charnock
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> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 18:01:41 +1300
> From: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> Subject: Re: [BL] Dial Up
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> Message from Steven
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> Forrest Charnock wrote:
>>
>> I have set up dialup in Linux before
>
> That will help.
>
>> and I am using a serial modem, a USRobotics
>> external 33.6 that I flashed to 56k, it works
>> fine in Ubuntu 9.04 and several versions of
>> Puppy Linux.
>
> Excellent, no hardware issues then.
>
>> I did edit the modem file
>
> I assume by that you mean eznet.conf (the first
> screen in pppsetup)
>
>> and I added the DNS server numbers
>
> The second screen in pppsetup.
>
>> but there were other files
>
> There are no other files to edit in pppsetup.
>
>> such as /etc/host.deny
>
> There is no host.deny file in BL3.
>
>> the instructions it said to edit.
>
> Which instructions?  The only instructions
> from pppsetup say:
> -----------------------------------
> ppp-on    dials your ISP
> links     starts browser
> ppp-off   terminates PPP connection
> -----------------------------------
>
> It sounds to me like the pppsetup you are
> running is not the BL3 pppsetup.  I can
> think of two possible reasons for this:
> (1) you are not running BL3; or (2) you
> have installed an add-on to BL3 that has
> overwritten the BL3 pppsetup.
>
> If you give us some more details, we will
> probably be able to figure out how to fix
> this.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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Forrest Charnock