Now pico inittab. Find the line # Serial lines #s1:45:.. ttyS0 19200 vt100 in my case I added a line s3:45:respawn:/sbin/uugetty ttyS3 19200 vt100. If your modem is on S1(com2) just uncomment (remove the #) the s1 line change getty to uugetty make sure to place ttyS1 then 19200(getty and uugetty are reversed) save the file and exit.

Oh one more thing Slackware's default init is level 5. If you think of it as a multiconfiguration file it helps. The numbers following the s0:s1...ex. 45 in step 5 this says to run this when the system boot level 4 or 5. Now reboot, login in using the keyboard ALT F1...ALT F3 what ever ttySx your modem is on, logon to system then type init 5 just to make sure the system is running level 5.

Step 6.

Go out and call into the system. Login check the system. That's it you should be able to telnet,ftp,lynx or what ever you have on your Linux machine.

Enjoy

But you say I want graphics!!! Ok This is what you do.

Slirp is Great, it's free, it does slip/PPP. Download it

Get a copy of SLiRP (binary or uncompiled). Click here for the source file. mkdir /slirp and move (mv) it there. Use gzip -dc slirp*.gz | tar xvf -

The | symbol is shift \

to uncompress the file. Read the manual of course. Do a make if all goes well you will have a binary call slirp. Copy it to /bin or somewhere nice. Now call into the linux box from remote computer / login issue the command slirp -b 38400 -P . If you RTFM you know -b is the baud rate of the connection between the computer and the modem. The -P places slirp in Point to Point (PPP). Now if your remote is computer is configured correctly you will have a PPP connect to the internet. Works great with win95. Set it as ppp client.

Or

Click here You will need either the windows client software with vbrun300.dll or without. And also pickup one of the host tar files while you are there. As of 11-22-1995 the name of the host file for linux is 12lin12.tar. Copy the file to your (host) login home directory. Then type tar -xvf (name of the file). This expand it and create some directories. For the client side it has a nice install/setup for windows and yes it does win95, but only in 16bit so get the 16bit version of Netscape. Create a login script using the login button and choose one. I use the unix multihops. Try it out use the status button to make sure that all commands are recieve ok. Enjoy ftp://ftp.infoexpress.com/pub/vtcp-async

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