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- Path: familynews.cycor.ca!usenet
- From: gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: INternet and amiga
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 13:16:41 GMT
- Organization: Cycor Communications Inc., Coast to Coast Internet Services
- Message-ID: <8876.6585T323T2610@cycor.ca>
- References: <DKusus.3n4@news.zippo.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: skt-as011.cycor.ca
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
-
- >Need help over here !!!
-
- >I own an Amiga 2000 (I know...I know it's a dino) with a 68030 + 4 MB RAM
- >and 105 MB hdisk. Anyone knows how can I use the Amiga to connect on the
- >internet. Kind of lost over here...especially in a country where the
- >aarggghhh IBM clone reigns supreme. Novice user. Need lots of help...
-
-
- I wrote this to try to help people with the installation to the Internet.
- It may have some errors, or omissions.
-
- A lot of what's here is from the various installation instructions.
-
- If there's parts that aren't clear, contact me, and I'll try to improve
- the instructions.
-
- ======================================================================
- List of programs needed to connect to the Internet with a PPP account:
- =====================================================================
-
- Program Where to get it
- ------- ---------------
-
- 1) AmiTCP-4.0 Aminet
- 2) PPP 1.30 Aminet
- 3) Amosaic-2.0-prerelease http://omnipresence.con/amosaic/
- -Needs MUI (get 3.1)
- 4) A mail, and news reader.
- -Thor (mail, and news) Aminet
- -Elm (mail)
- Requires inet_utilities
- and AmiPOP Aminet
- -Grn (news) Aminet
-
- =====================================================================
- what you need from your provider
- =====================================================================
-
- Your providers domain name
- Your providers IP address
- Your user name
- Your password
-
- =====================================================================
-
- AmiTCP installation:
- ===================
-
- Use the Install script.
-
- Enter the following: (I've shown what I entered for an example)
-
- Your user name for the default user name - gcaine
-
- Yes for is your network connection dynamic.
-
- You servers domain name for your domain name - cycor.ca
-
- Select PPP for the internet interface type
-
- Select PPP for the network interface to be used.
-
- Enter 0.0.0.0 for the default IP address.
-
- Enter your server's IP address for the destination address - 198.167.1.1
-
- Enter a blank string for the Netmask.
-
- Enter your server's IP for the IP address of the name servers - 198.167.1.1
- Follow that with a blank line for the next name server.
-
- Enter your servers domain name for the domain names to search - cycor.ca
- Follow that with a blank line
-
- Select "Yes" to have the User-startup script changed.
-
- Select "Yes" to have Inetd to be started at the AmiTCP startup.
-
- You will then be asked for a password for the user.
-
- PPP 1.30 installation:
- ======================
-
- Make a drawer called NetWorks in Devs:
-
- Copy the ppp.device that's right for your system from PPP/devs to
- Devs:NetWorks and rename it to PPP.device
-
- Copy everything in PPP/bin to AmiTCP:bin
-
- Make a drawer in Envarc: called Sana2
- Create a file called ppp0.config and put this line in it.
-
- serial.device 0 57600 0.0.0.0 7WIRE
-
- Put the file ppp0.config in Envarc:sana2
-
- Edit this with your user name, and replace AmiTCP:bin/startnet with it:
-
- ----------------------------Cut Startnet---------------------------
-
- online devs:networks/ppp.device 0
- ; log in
- echo
- echo login: gcaine
- AmiTCP:bin/login -f gcaine
- AmiTCP:bin/umask 022
- AmiTCP:AmiTCP
- WaitForPort AMITCP
- ; Configure loop-back device
- AmiTCP:bin/ifconfig lo0 localhost
- ; Configure ppp0
- AmiTCP:bin/ifconfig ppp0 $ppp0iplocal $ppp0ipremote
- ; Add route to this host
- AmiTCP:bin/route add $ppp0iplocal localhost
- AmiTCP:bin/route add default $ppp0ipremote
- setenv HOSTNAME `AmiTCP:bin/hostname`
- Assign TCP: Exists > NIL:
- IF Warn
- Mount TCP: from AmiTCP:devs/Inet-Mountlist
- EndIf
- ; Start the internet `super server'
- run AmiTCP:bin/inetd
-
- ------------------------------End Cut Startnet---------------------
-
-
- Add this line to the end of AmiTCP:bin/Stopnet
-
- Offline ppp.device 0
-
- Add this line to the end of AminTCP:db/interfaces
-
- ppp0 DEV=Devs:NetWorks/ppp.device UNIT=0 IPTYPE=33 NOARP P2P
-
-
- Amosaic installation:
- =====================
-
- Install MUI with the Installer script.
-
- Copy the contents of Amosaic/envarc to envarc:
- Copy the contents Amosaic/Rexx to Rexx:
-
- Put this in s:user-startup:
-
- -----------------------------cut user-startup-----------------
-
- ;BEGIN mosaic
- assign Mosaic: amitcp:inet/Amosaic20 (put the proper path here)
- Setenv NNTPSERVER 198.167.1.1 (put your own servers IP here)
- ;END mosaic
-
- ------------------------------end cut user-startup------------
-
- Edit envarc:mosaic/prefs so its like this:
-
- __________________________cut mosaic prefs-------------------
-
- DelayImageLoads true
- ImageCacheSize 500
- RexxMacro1 Add to Hotlist | add-hotlist
- RexxMacro2 Jump to Hotlist | "'jump url file://localhost/env:Mosaic/hotlist.html'"
- HomeDocument http://www.cycor.ca/
- TempDir Ram:t/ <------------------- the slash is manditory
- Home AmiTCP:/ <------------------- ditto
- DownLoadDir AmiTCP:downloads
-
- ------------------------end cut mosaic prefs---------------------
-
- Edit the home HomeDocument part to go where ever you want.
-
- ==================================================================
- ==================================================================
-
- After you have done everything we've discussed so far:
-
- - Open your Term program.
- - type AT&d0
- - call your service provider, and log in.
- - When you start to see what looks like a bunch of garbage, save your
- buffer, and quit the term program.
- - From a shell type startnet<enter>
- if all goes well you should see a window open, asking for your password.
- enter it. The Amitcp register requester will come up. You can close it
- after a few moments. Then you should see PPP getting set up.
- - Click the Amosaic Icon, and see if you get anywhere.
-
- * Note *
- You must have the baud rate set the same in both your
- Term program, and in ppp0.config
-
- After you've had a chance to look around the net for a bit, type
- stopnet<enter> from a shell to quit.
-
- Open the buffer file you saved from your term program, and use it to
- create a dialscript for PPP.
-
- Here a copy of mine:
-
- -------------------------cut s:dialscript-------------------------
- ECHO ON
- TIMEOUT 1500
- REDIAL "BUSY"
- SEND "AAT&d0DT2424828"
- WAIT "Enter choice: "
- SEND "3"
- WAIT "Username: "
- SEND "gcaine"
- WAIT "Password: "
- SEND "mypassword"
- WAIT "Switching to PPP."
-
- -------------------------end cut s:dialscript----------------------
-
- Change envarc:sana2/ppp0.config to this:
-
- serial.device 0 57600 0.0.0.0 7WIRE DIALSCRIPT=s:dialscript
-
- Now all you have to do to connect is type startnet from the shell.
-
- Thor Installation:
- ==================
-
- Use the installtion script.
-
- Here's what I did after I installed Thor.
- ----------------------------------------
-
- System Config:
- - I created a system called Gary.
- - I put my user name in the "Mailpacket (w/o ext.)" field.
- - I selected TCP for the Type.
- - I clicked the "User Info ..." button and entered my user name, and
- email address.
- - I clicked the "Type Options ..." button and put my server's IP number
- in the mail server, and news server fields. I entered my user name,
- and password, and clicked on the "Delete mail from POP server" button.
- - I left everything else in the system config as it was, and saved it.
-
- Conference Config:
- -I Clicked "User Info" and entered my email address
-
- Global Config:
- Message Options:
- - I entered an external editor. (right now I have GED SCREEN Thor.1)
- If you use an editor that you can't open on a public screen then
- change the tool types in the Thor Icon to make it open on the WB.
- - put my signature in the "Signature" field, and selected "Use String"
- Global Paths:
- - "Save Dir" Work:AmiTCP-4.0/Archive/Text
- - "Download Dir" Work:AmiTCP-4.0/Mail
- - "Upload Dir" Work:Amitcp-4.0/MailSpool
- - "Arexx Dir" S:
- - "Tmp Dir" T:
- - "Dos Output" Con:0/11/640/200/Thor<->Dos 0
-
- Everything else I left alone.
-
- I added this to the top of my startnet script:
-
- SetEnv USERNAME gcaine
- SetEnv HOSTNAME cycor.ca
- SetEnv SOCKETCONFIG "UID=100 GID=100 USER=gcaine DOMAIN=cycor.ca UMASK=002"
-
- You will have to change it to match your system.
-
- Make sure you put the socket.library in the AmiTCP:libs drawer.
-
- I created two more systems, one each for my wife, and daughter.
-
- To Join conferences you have to go to the "Events" menus and select
- "Get ConfList". The next time you call your server, select "Connect Thor"
- from the menus, and then click on "Do Events" or "Do All". A list of
- available conferences will be downloaded, and then you can join the ones
- you want.
- ======================================================================
-
- I don't know if this is the most effecient way to get set up, but it
- got me going.
-
- I hope this helps, send me email to let me know how it works out. :)
-
-
- Gary Caine Member: Team AMIGA
-
-