Setting up a working Dial-up connection

[thebeast]

Hi all. Don't have Ubuntu yet, waiting for my pressed CD of 4.10 final. When I get it i have one big concern. I only have dial-up internet and I rely heavily on KPPP to connect. Ubuntu doesn't come with KPPP.

I hear that they allow you to set up a ppp connection in post-install config which is nice, but how do I dial? Right now I use Slackware 10 and the Gnome Modem Lights applet has never worked for me. Hopefully they'll work in Ubuntu....?

[flygmaskin]

I dont have dialup myself, so I'm not sure about this. But I think gnome has some sort of dialup tool. If it doesn't kppp is still included in Universe.

It would be best if someone who has a clue about dialup could answer this

[Nikola]

This how I did it:

1. pppconfig in Terminal to set up your connection.
2. pon name_of_the_connection to connect, maybe you'll have to "modprobe ppp_generic" if that module is not already loaded
3. poff name_of_the_connection to disconect.

Step between 2 and 3:
Start Synaptic, get wvdial and gnome-ppp, that's what I'm using.

[thebeast]

Thanks a lot Nikola. I have gnomePPP now, and was wondering why the heck it wouldn't connect. It's because I don't have wvdial. Thx for the tip. Looking forward to using ubuntu.

[simbloke]

Hmm, where did you find gnome-ppp? I've enabled the universe repositories and reloaded the list but I just can't find it!
Sim

[Nikola]

Originally Posted by simbloke Hmm, where did you find gnome-ppp? I've enabled the universe repositories and reloaded the list but I just can't find it! Sim

Download deb file from here:
http://linux.org.by/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-ppp/

Then, dpkg -i gnome-ppp_*something*.deb.