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WOW ! ! Dial up is working in linux FOR me ! Well this might not be news for many , but yeah its a big one for me ! Without this i had been disconnected for more than one semester hols .
What did i do for making the dial-up work ??
Simple – Installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon ran wvdial – the gnome PPP dialer! it worked just out of the box ! All i had to know was to do was to add
my user name and password for the dial up connection ! sweet isn’t it ??
1. sudo wvdialconf
this generated a wvdial configuration file for connecting to net using ur modem
2. sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf
change the username, password and dial up number in that file of my ISP .
3. sudo wvdial
it throws a lot of garbage and then finally obtains few DNS & IP addresses!
Then u can use firefox or any other application to connect to net ! thats all 
Now after this , i also installed a gnome application called PPP dialer , which is a GUI for wvdial.
Just a day has passed since i came back home . Already two big things happened ! Hope hols have lots more for me 
PS : the other thing is OGRE, which will be in another blog
Dai! Stop your brutal misspelling of the name of the distro! Its Gutsy Gibbon!
sorry ! edited it now !! thanks for that ! i did not know earlier
i know the irritativity of dial-up in linux .. when i first installed linux ( in my 11th i think ) i had only dial-up at home and then i had no idea of anything .. then i gave up .. lol .. broadband adsl is quite easy to connect esp via ethernet cable .. if you know to configure adsl modems connected via usb cable plz post a how-to on that ..
Nice man.
well… nice post.. but u shudnt give out passwords like this
u are a “genius”… get it…
dude ! I know thats my standard password and almost everyone know it !But then its no more my standard password and the Dial up connection password is not that ! And Right now i have broadband connection
Well that’s great news.
There was such a hue and cry when dial-up was virtually disabled in Edgy and Feisty that someone musta had a look at it re. Gutsy.
This makes a world of difference because my Mum’s been stuck with Dapper and I couldn’t get her into something better.
Shall give it a try ….external serial modem of course.
Thank you.
Thank you for your useful blog. I am in the middle of setting up a new laptop with Linux Ubuntu 7.01. I have Tiscali which use an ISDN Sagem modem.
The only problem I have had is getting on the internet.
I am shifting off Microsoft, at last we have a decent alternative.
Thankyou again
Alan North Wales United Kingdom
@alan: thanks ! guess u can try ubuntu Hardy then. Its better than fiesty
@michael: thanks