Re: Diald

[Pieter Meiring <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Hi
>
> I've got a Dr David Bellamy next to me and he wants info
> about diald. He's tried the diald howto and he's very confused.
>
> His e-mail address is dbellamy [at] vip.solis.co.uk. So if you
> can help him please do.
>
I have been using diald for over 2 years now and recently re-installed it on a
fresh installation of Mandrake.

What troubles can I help you with?

My current installation procedure is basicly as follows (applies to
RedHat/Mandrake):

1. Set up PPP so that it works. Note - this is NOT KPPP which does its own
magic. Under Redhat, you need to either set it up manually or use linuxconf or
the control-panel do set it up. Make sure PPP works and dials up coorectly on
a manual basis.

2. Install diald - I am using diald-0.99.1. I compiled and installed it from
scratch from the archive file. Do not configure it.

3. Install the diald-config RPM. I am using diald-config-1.2.1-1

4. Install the diald-config-metered RPM. I use diald-config-metered-0.2-2

5. Start diald with /etc/rc.d/init.d/diald start

Thats it!

I also use (under X) the start-dctrl proggie to bring up a nice little
dialdcontrol panel.

Pieter

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