[UCLA-LUG] internet

[Dan Helfman]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:54:52AM -0700, MIng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm able to configure my modem. The following is what I did.
> 1. rp3-config to configure my modem sucessfully
> 2. ln -sf /dev/ttyS3 /dev/modem  according to the result from rp3-config
> 
> 3 minicom  which allow me to connect to BOL by doing Ctrl-A D.
> 
> But the problem is, although I can connect to BOL, I can only use the
> network inside that terminal such as telnet and I cannot use browser at
> all. Do I need to do something else to configure the browser(netscape)
> in order to browse the internet?
> 

Minicom is usually only used for testing and/or connecting to a shell
account via dialup. If you want to start a PPP connection so that you can
use Netscape, etc., then just run rp3-config and create a new dialup
configuration, giving the information for your internet service provider
(which happens to be BOL in this case).

> Also, although I use Ctrl-A H to hang up and the connection was able to
> be dropped, when I use minicom again, the error msg says that /dev/modem
> is locked.

I'm not sure about this one.

> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Ming

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