Roy, RE: Can you help me configure a reliable GUI interface to my new linmodem? Sorry. I can't take time for such details. Too much time is spent just getting folks on line. A GUI/script just automates what you are doing manually. Others can help with such niceties. >From the problems you relate below, I would avoid bootup automation for the modem. Let the System get established, before using the modem. I would advise doing trials directly with wvdial, and avoid other front ends which can just obscure diagnostic messages to /var/log/messages. We need details from these logs, to enable help. MarvS MarvS On Jan 25, 2008 11:23 PM, Roy Taylor <crt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marv -- > > Thanks for your help. I've made progress, but the results remain > unstable. Can you help me configure a reliable GUI interface to my > new linmodem? > > Here's what I've done, following your guidance, since my last post: > $ sudo modprobe martian_dev > $ sudo martian_modem --country=us --debug=2 --log=RTlog > $ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf > > At this point I was able to connect with `wvdial once, but subsequent > attempts sometimes failed. Also, following "wvdial.txt," I created > "modprobe.d/martian," rebooted, and found the time from power-up to > login screen had gone from 3.7 to 5.7min, as "AgereDSP.txt" warned. > Strangely, that extra boot time persisted even when I then removed > "modprobe.d/martian." What's going on? Was that a one-time device > install? > > On the first of those boots, I tried `wvdial before connecting the phone > line, and it worked up to the "no dialtone" point. Then, with the phone > cord plugged, I got: Cannot open /dev/ttySM0: Input/output error > > Hours of trial and (mostly) error passed. > > Finally, with a fresh boot and manual `wvdial, I downloaded and > installed gnome_ppp from packages.ubuntu.com to try a different > approach. Contrary to what "wvdial.txt" claims, the gnome_ppp interface > ignores both "etc/wvdial.conf" and ".wvdial.rc" in the users home > directory and instead writes its own "wvdial.conf" in the latter > location. At any rate, I couldn't get it to work. On two consequitive > tries, I got: > > home/crt/.wvdial.conf<Warn>: Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT > edit this file by hand!" > WvDial<*1>: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56 > WvDial<Err>: Cannot open /dev/ttySM0: Input/output error > > /home/crt/.wvdial.conf<Warn>: Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT > edit this file by hand!" > WvDial<*1>: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56 > WvDial<Err>: Cannot open /dev/ttySM0: Device or resource busy > > Any clues? I can send you the log(s) from martian_modem startup > separately, if that might help. Let me know. > > -- Roy > > > >
