Getting Connected to the Internet with KPPP
written by: Paul Penrod

First, enter in the following information, so it appears like the example above:

*NOTE: must be all lower case.

When you are done, press the ADD button.

When you press the ADD button, the IP address you entered will be moved to the DNS Address List text box. This text box holds the IP addresses of all the domain name servers this KPPP connection will use to resolve names not kept locally. We’re almost done here, but we need to add another IP address.

Enter the next address 207.217.120.83, as shown above and press the ADD button.

When you are done, the DNS dialog should look like this:

Next, select the Gateway tab.

In this dialog, make sure that Default Gateway is the selected option. It does not matter for this connection if Assign the Default Route to this Gateway is checked. If it does not interfere with another connection to your LAN, then leave this option alone.

Next, select the Device tab.

In this tab dialog we will only check one item now, but will come back to this later. For now, make sure the Modem Device: drop menu is set to /dev/modem UNLESS you know for certain that your modem is connected via another process such as /dev/ttyS1, etc. If you are not sure, leave the menu at /dev/modem, and when KPPP checks the modem it will let us know if it can find the modem.

Next, select the Modem tab.

In this tab dialog we are going to do two things, A) check for our modem and B) set the Volume control. For those of you that have modems which asserts a Carrier Detect (check your modem documentation), you’ll need to check the Modem Asserts CD Line check box. If you don’t know, then leave the box alone for now.

First we will check for the modem. Press the Query Modem button. KPPP will bring up the ATI Query dialog to track the status of querying the modem. If KPPP can’t find the modem, you will see a dialog box that looks like this:

Press the CANCEL button. If you get this dialog box, then go back to the KPPP Configuration dialog box and select the Device tab.

In this dialog, we need to go find our modem, as we were informed previously that /dev/modem did not provide KPPP contact with the modem. In that case we need to identify the port where the modem exists. For first time Linux users, serial ports are identified differently than Windows.

For example, in Windows, COM1: identifies the first serial port. In Linux/UNIX /dev/ttyS0 identifies the outbound side of the first serial port, while /dev/cua0 defines the inbound side of the first serial port. COM2: would equate to /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/cua1, while COM3: would be defined as /dev/ttyS2 and /dev/cua2 Confused? stay with me….

Since we are only interested for outbound calls for this connection, we won’t worry about any /dev/cua device connections. So, we can limit our choices down to the following:

COM1:           /dev/ttyS0
COM2:           /dev/ttyS1
COM3:           /dev/ttyS2
COM4:           /dev/ttyS3

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