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Setting up Your Modem through the GUI

Once you have a working modem in Linux, you can go right to the Red Hat Network Configuration window and step through the procedure for setting up a modem connection. If you can't get your dial-up connection to work, use minicom and some log files to troubleshoot the problems as described here:

The basic steps from a Fedora desktop to configure a dial-up modem are as follows:

  1. Click System Settings Network from the Red Hat menu.

  2. Click New from the Network Configuration window.

  3. Select Modem connection and step through the procedure. To complete the procedure, you need at least the phone number to dial the ISP, provider name, login name, and password. (Name the provider ppp0 to overcome a bug in the current release.)

  4. Select File Save.

  5. With the new modem entry selected (probably named ppp0), select Activate to dial your ISP.

If everything is working properly, you should be able to communicate to your ISP (and beyond). If the communications fails, you can start by poking around in the following places:

Note 

I suggest you tail a log file when you start up a service (such as dial-up) to see messages in real-time. For example, as root user type tail-f/var/log/messages to watch the dial-up process from a Terminal window when you activate the modem from the Network Configuration window.

To try to get your modem settings to work, or to simply tune up those settings to work more efficiently, it helps to understand the AT command set.


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