OK, it's working now. Thanks for your patience and help.
In order to access the internet, it is now necessary to open a terminal
window, and enter these commands:
sudo modprobe snd-intel8x0m
sudo slmodemd --alsa -c USA modem:1
Then open another terminal window, and enter:
sudo wvdial
Is it possible to set something up so that clicking on an icon in the
task bar will do all this? I am pretty much of a newbie at Linux, and
will need pretty explicit instructions.
I looked at a number of posts in the Ubuntu forums, and found out how to
launch wvdial from a task bar icon, but it wasn't clear how to combine
all three commands.
Again, thanks for your help.
Dave
Jacques Goldberg wrote:
David
I am awfully sorry.
Overloaded with work I typed Carriage Check = no instead of
Carrier Check = no
Can you please correct, retry, and return to us if necessary?
I again apologize for this stupid mistake which I made.
Jacques
David Wagler wrote:
Something still isn't right. The /etc/wvdial.conf file and the 'sudo
wvdial' terminal log are attached.
As for the "Name, password pair incorrect" message, the name and
password in /etc/wvdial.conf are the same used by my WinXP dialer.
The last set of messages repeats until the terminal window is closed.
Jacques Goldberg wrote:
Dave,
First, congratulations for having read scanModem and done the right
thing.
But please let me verify one detail: have you stopped slmodemd with
CTRL-C before trying to connect? slmodemd must be left active in its
own console/terminal/window/xterm/you_name_it.
In your place, because wvdial is much better at debugging than other
dialers, I would, in an additional console, once slmodemd is
running, launch sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
If wvdialconf finds your modem, your modem works.
Then, edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf
Make sure that you have a line
Carriage Check = no
Remove the leading ; in the username, password and phone number lines.
Replace the complete placeholders ( < > suppressed!) by your
parameters.
Save
Now run sudo wvdial
and if you cannot work send us the file /etc/wvdial.conf WITH
PASSWORD ERASED and the text spilled out by the console where you
started wvdial .
Jacques
Dave wrote:
I have a new Ubuntu installation in a Dell M675X laptop, and have
not been able to determine how to make the winmodem work. I ran
scanModem, and the results are attached. This is a copy of the
terminal log of what I did after looking at the results of scanModem:
dave@dave-GatewayU:~$ chmod a+x /home/dave/SLMODEMD.gcc4
dave@dave-GatewayU:~$ sudo cp /home/dave/SLMODEMD.gcc4/slmodemd
/usr/sbin
Password:
dave@dave-GatewayU:~$ find /usr -name slmodemd
/usr/sbin/slmodemd
dave@dave-GatewayU:~$ sudo modprobe snd-intel8x0m
Password:
dave@dave-GatewayU:~$ sudo slmodemd --alsa -c USA modem:1
SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.11 Mar 13 2006 18:27:33
symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/2' created.
modem `modem:1' created. TTY is `/dev/pts/2'
Use `/dev/ttySL0' as modem device, Ctrl+C for termination.
dave@dave-GatewayU:~$
Upon navigating to the Modem connection Interface properties window
and clicking the _A_utodetect button, no modem can be found. If
the modem port is set to /dev/ttySL0, the modem connection cannot
be activated. If the modem port is set to /dev/ttyS0, the modem
connection can be activated, but the ISP is still not dialed.
What have I not done or done wrong?
