Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[pvr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Roundy)]

crumb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Date sent:              Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:09:49 -0600
> From:                   Sandy Carney <carneys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:                     suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:                Re: [SuSE Linux] Hi All
> Send reply to:          suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Say on, brother.  I've spent at least 150.00 on books, and they ALL
> are that way.  I just recieved " Harley Han's Student Guide To Unix"
> today, and I'll let you know.  It was 28.00 from Amazon.  I've been
> playing with Linux for about 5 months and I still don't know how to
> connect to the internet.  I've read all the man pages and how-to's
> and I'm still blank. Why can't anyone step-by-step it?  How's this
> one, "Create a "chat script to..."?"  Yeah, right.  I asked someone,
> "From a clean install, how do I get connected to my ISP ( I know
> all of the necessary info-chap, DNS, IP address, etc, and that was
> the response.  If it wasn't for Windoze, i wouldn't be writing this
> now.  Oh well...
> 

Did you have trouble with the generic SuSE PPP configuration tool in
YAST?  I can give you help with that offline if you want.  I thought
that was one of the easier ways to do it.  wvdial is pretty easy too.

Paul
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