[UCLA-LUG] internet

[MIngqiang Yu]

I did run rp3-config and gave all the BOL's information. Could 
you tell me how to start it or how to run it to connect to the 
internet? 

Thanks.

Ming

On Wed, 03 May 2000 12:04:05 -0700 Dan Helfman 
<witten@linux.ucla.edu> wrote:

> 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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   ming
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Mingqiang Yu
Department of Economics
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477