[TriLUG] Road runner dialup while travelling

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 16:53, Tom Bryan wrote:
> My boss has sent me on the road.  At home, I use Road Runner.  RR has recently 
> started offering dialup access for those of us who are on the road.  My 
> laptop has both Windows 2000 and Linux.  I can connect to Road Runner's dial 
> up service from Windows, but I haven't been able to get it working with Linux 
> (Red Hat 7.3).  It's been a while since I last did this (with Mindspring), 
> but I don't remember having much trouble.
> 
> Do I have to set up some sort of ppp0 interface first?  Is that just handled 
> automagically?  I include a bunch of information below, but I'm not even 
> really sure how to troubleshoot this one.  If anyone can give me some ideas, 
> I'd really appreciate it.  

Red Hat Linux 7.3 includes a network configuration tool that should
handle all of the scripting for you.  Just run "redhat-config-network",
add a new modem interface, put in the phone number and other dialing
options, and that's it.  It really should "just work."  I've never had
to deal with any of those scripts that you mentioned; those are handled
behind the scenes these days.  Have you tried the graphical
configuration?

--Jeremy