Marv, I must apologize. I decided to lift the phone in the other room and could here the modem ringing a number. I realized this should not be the case, so I checked the phone number to the ISP. I had mistakenly entered the wrong number. I can only hope the person on the other end has a forgiving heart, I tried this many times last night. OUCH! Once the number was corrected, I re-edited the wvdial.conf to its original settings and re-tried, with success. I am now sending this email over that connection. HOWEVER. I get this timeout message and it drops the line: WvDial<*1>: Connect time 7.0 minutes. WvDial<*1>: Disconnecting at Fri Feb 15 13:09:25 2008 WvDial<*1>: The PPP daemon has died: Lack of LCP echo responses (exit code = 15) WvDial<*1>: man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. WvDial<Notice>: I guess that's it for now, exiting WvDial<*1>: Provider is overloaded(often the case) or line problem. WvDial<Notice>: The PPP daemon has died. (exit code = 15) smaknj@Smaknj-Laptop:~$ I've been playing with the lcp-echo-failure and lcp-echo-interval30 in the /etc/ppp/options file to enable and disable them, to see if this makes a difference. I need to know what article to read to automate the slmodemd driver at boot up. ALSO, What article will explain how to get the Ubuntu Network manager to invoke wvdial. I think I'm under the belief that I must only use wvdial in a terminal window rather than the settings being used in the Ubuntu gui. Thanks for your patience. You've done a marvellous job getting me going.
