Re: [aclug-L] How to dual-boot Windows 95 and Linux RedHat 6.0

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Patrick Klee wrote:
> Greetings,
>     I asked a question but didn't get a reply, I probably didn't word it
> right so I will try again.  I had RedHat 5.2, and successfully
> configured internet.  I have a PPP Dial-Up account with Feist.  Then I
> bought RedHat 6.0, and I did the same things with 6.0 as I did with 5.2,
> but now, I can't get either 5.2 or 6.0 to work with internet, I used
> Usernet and the Control-Panel to successfully configure everything, but
> I'm figuring, if I can't get Internet to run on Linux, I will be upset.
> However, how do I find out what COM port my modem is working under in
> DOS, maybe that might help.  Any help is a appriciated.
> Thanks,
> Patrick


Patrick:

There really isn't an easy sure fired way to tell what COM port your
modem uses in DOS. If you have a DOS communications program you might
fire that up and try each port in succession. For each port try
sending the command "AT" (no quotes). If you get back an OK then you
have found the port.

Regarding your difficulties getting PPP to work with Linux: Perhaps if
you can find the logs that the pppd program is generating, usually in
/var/log/ppp, /var/log/daemon, or /var/log/messages, that would
help. You could send a copy of those logs and we could help you
analyse them.


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