Greetings, I am a Linux and Ubuntu newbie attempting to donate 40+ surplus computers to disadvantaged students and their families at our school here in West Texas. I am setting them up with Edubuntu 7.04 because of the Open Office and educational software. These families cannot afford cable or DSL connections (these computers all have working eth0 connections) so I am attempting to install modems for (possibly affordable) Internet access. wvdial has been installed and dials out, however when it connects and I am supposed to get a TTY display (or something) to type into, I never get one. I'm guessing here, I am not familiar with how modem protocols work. Gnome-ppp shows the disconnect message, but fails to hang up, leaving the line and carrier active until the provider times out. This continues until reboot. After the disconnect message below, the modem /dev/ttySL0 disappears and cannot be found. The computer must be rebooted, after which everything works again up to the point shown. ALSO: I cannot figure out how to get a full set of debug messages turned on or saved from wvdial and other utilities like pppd and gnome-ppp. Below are the texts from Gnome-ppp dialout, wvdialconf output, wvdial.txt, and /etc/wvdial.conf. Thanks for all you do! Bob Terrell, Lubbock, Texas ----------------- Gnome-ppp dialout text --> Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT edit this file by hand!" --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56 --> Cannot get information for serial port. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATM1L3DT6875000 --> Waiting for carrier. ATM1L3DT6875000 --> Disconnecting at Fri Nov 2 11:37:30 2007 ------------------------- wvdialconf debug scripts user1@user1-desktop:~$ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf > wvdial.txt Password: ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at user1@user1-desktop:~$ cat /etc/wvdial.conf [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = 0 New PPPD = yes Phone = 6875000 Modem = /dev/ttySL0 Username = acooper Carrier check = yes Password = acooper Baud = 460800 115200, giving up. ttyS1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud ttyS1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud ttyS1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at 115200, giving up. Modem Port Scan<*1>: S2 S3 WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port. ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- OK ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 Z -- OK ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 -- OK ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 -- OK ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 -- OK ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Modem Identifier: ATI -- SmartLink Soft Modem ttySL0<*1>: Speed 4800: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 9600: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 19200: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 38400: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 57600: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 115200: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 230400: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Speed 460800: AT -- OK ttySL0<*1>: Max speed is 460800; that should be safe. ttySL0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK ttySL0<Info>: Speed 460800; init "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0" ---------------------------------------------------- user1@user1-desktop:~$ cat wvdial.txt Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'. Scanning your serial ports for a modem. Found a modem on /dev/ttySL0. Modem configuration written to /etc/wvdial.conf. -------------------------------------------------------- user1@user1-desktop:~$ cat /etc/wvdial.conf [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = 0 New PPPD = yes Phone = 6875000 Modem = /dev/ttySL0 Username = acooper Carrier check = yes Password = ERASED Baud = 460800 Bob Terrell, Lubbock Cooper ISD, Lubbock, Tx Bob Terrell Lubbock, Texas bob_terrell_texas@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
