Standard dialup configuration?

[kikinovak]

Hi,

I'm just fiddling with Gentoo - out of curiousity - after having spent a few years on Slack and a few months on Debian.

Question: how do I setup a dialup connection in command line? Other distros offer tools such as pppsetup or pppconfig, small scripts that ask you a few questions about your ISP and your phone number, and then you dis/connect via ppp-on and ppp-off, of pon/poff. Now what would that be in Gentoo?

I have a 2004.3 GRP install, and I'd like to setup that dialup connection first, because some smaller packages are missing on the package CD.

Cheers,

NK
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[gentsquash]

There is KDE's "Internet Dial-Up Tool" called `kppp'.

However, I found good old `wvdial' the easiest to use.
The man-page is WVDIAL(1).

These two threads might be useful.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1760743&highlight=#1760743

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1790451&highlight=#1790451

The second thread shows a way to set up `wvdial' on a
multiple-user system, while keeping the password file
not-readable.
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