Authors: | Philipp Knirsch | phil@redhat.de |
Harald Hoyer | harald@redhat.de | |
Than Ngo | than@redhat.de | |
Trond Eivind Glomsrød | teg@redhat.com |
The tool itself is separated into 4 different parts:
The first screen when you start redhat-config-network should look similar to this the first time you start it.
As already described the main dialog is spearated into 4 tabs or notebooks. The first one you see is the network device configuration notebook. On this you can add, edit, copy and delete your network devices.
A network device in neat is always linked to a real physical hardware device (which has to be configured in the Hardware notebook) in some way.
Network devices can be active or inactive. Active means that the actual configuration for that device will be stored and used by the system when you either apply your changes or if you close the application and chose to save your changes and restart your network afterwards.
The Help button will bring up this help which you are reading right now.
The Apply button will store all your devices and other changes you have made and will make the active devices visible for the system. The Close button closes the application. A dialog will ask you wether you want to store the configuration or not or if you don't want to quit the application after all.
On the first page you can select which kind of connection you have. Select the one you have and press the Next button. That will bring you to the selected device type next druid page.
If you have never configured your Modem before, either with rp3 or with this new configuration tool you will get this dialog to select the modem which you want to use for your Internet connection.
In case a modem has been configured previously this dialog will be skipped and the already configured modem will be used.
The following things can be configured:
Modem Device | The actualy physical device to which the modem is attached. A list of probed modems will be available or /dev/modem if no valid modem could be detected. |
Baud Rate | The actual speed with which the modem is connected to the computer. If you should have problems with the default speed try a lower setting. |
Flow Control | The connection type between computer and modem. This depends on the cable used and the capabilities of the modem and the serial device. Modern hardware and cables almost always use Hardware flow control. If the default doesn't work either try None or Software flow control. |
Modem Volume | The volume of the modem loudspeaker during dialing and connecting to the remote modem. Ranges between Off, Low, Medium, High and Very High. |
Use touch tone dialing | For older telephone systems you might want to disable the use of touch tone dialing and use the old pulse dialing method. |
To actually connect to the Internet you need to specify which ISP (Internet Service Provider) you have.
You can either fill in the information by hand on the right hand side of the dialog or you can select one from the ISP database provided in the tree on the left hand side.
For manual configuration you can edit the following things:
Prefix | The prefix for your modem. Usually used to get a line. |
Area Code | The country and area code for your ISP. |
Phone Number | The actual phone number of your ISP. |
Provider Name | The name by which you want to identify your ISP. |
Login Name | The login or username with which you login to your ISP. |
Password | The password for your login to your ISP. |
If you choose to select one of the ISPs from the database your ISP selection dialog will look similar to the one above. All ISP entries provide at least the area code, the phone number and the provider name. For call-by-ball ISPs the login name and password are usually filled out as well. Depending on wether you use a call-by-call provider or not you only need to enter or change the login name and password.
The Next button will bring you to the final druid dialog, just
like when you filled in all information manually.