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Ubuntu Operating System

 

Configuring a PPPoE Dial-Up Connection in Ubuntu

 

Ubuntu includes some useful utilities to get your dial-up connection up and running. Here is the following ways you can connect to your dialup connection

1)Using your networking option in Ubuntu

2)using gnome-ppp

3)using kppp (For Kubuntu)

4)using wvdialconf & wvdial

5)using pppconfig & pon/poff

first thing you need to make sure your modem drivers are installed or not.If you want more details about modem drivers in ubuntu and installation check here

 

Now we will see 3 ways how to configure dialup connection in ubuntu

 

Before Starting

 

Before configuring Dial-up connection you need to have the following information from your ISP

1)Username

2)Password

3)Dail-in number

Configuring a Dial-Up Connection using Networking option

 

you can go to System—>Administration —>Networking

 

Once it open the application you should see the following screen

 

In the above screen select modem connection option and click on properties you should see the following screen

 

 

The first thing you will need to do is to enable the connection by ticking the Enable this connection box, now you need enter your ISP’s phone number as well as your username and password

 

 Next, click on the modem tab to specify details about your modem and also configure the speaker volume. Most telephone systems use tone dialing nowadays, so make sure this is selected . I have selected the speaker volume on medium.

 

 

Now you need to click on options tab If you are using a laptop, then you will probably want to uncheck Set modem as default route to the Internet whilst you are on a LAN, otherwise you may struggle to see anything! Tick it when you are expecting to use your dial-up connection though, and Ubuntu will use this connection to get out onto the Internet. You need to select other two options checked.

 

 

 

Now You can use the Gnome Modem Monitor and Network Monitor panel if you want to stop, start and monitor modem connections.

Configuring a Dial-Up Connection using pppconfig

configure a connection using pppconfig, a command line utility to help you to configure specific dial-up connection settings.This is a command line based option to manage dialup connections.

Open a terminal from Applications > System Tools > Terminal and type

sudo pppconfig

Now you should see the following screen here you need to select “Create Create a connection” select ok and press enter

  

Here you need to enter provider name and you can leave default one and in this example i am giving “comcast” select ok and press enter

Next screen you need to select “Dynamic Use dynamic DNS” select ok and press enter

You need to select Authentication method here i am selecting “chat :Use chat for login/password :Authentication” select ok and press enter

Select login prompt option leave default select ok and press enter

Select password prompt option leave default select ok and press enter

Enter the username given to you by your ISP in this example i am using “ruchiw” select ok and press enter

Enter the password given to you by your ISP in this example i am using “myfirstpassword” select ok and press enter

Enter the modem speed as “115200″ select ok and press enter

Select method of dialing as “Tone” select ok and press enter

Enter the number to dial select ok and press enter

Choose your modem configuration method if you want to detect your modem automatically select yes otherwise select no in this example i am selecting no select ok and press enter

Select the modem port and i leave the default option select ok and press enter

Connecting to your ISP

Before you connect for the first time you need to add yourself to both the dip and dialout groups by using the commands

sudo adduser YOURNAMEHERE dip

sudo adduser YOURNAMEHERE dialout

# connect to the ISP configured as “comcast”

pon comcast

# disconnect the ISP configured as “comcast”

poff comcast

If you are trying to connect as default “provider” you need to use the following commands to connect and disconnect

pon

poff

You can check the last messages generated by these commands with

# shows the (status) messages generated by pon and poff

plog