John On the LCP issue, read Jacques PostInstall howto at his http://132.68.73.235/linmodems/ "man pppd" explains the error codes, close to the end. Also /etc/ppp/options has further info. I prefer not to automate slmodemd, because the driver occassional dies. To recover slmodemd must be stopped, the driver unloaded, driver reloaded, and slmodemd restarted. But you can install a package sl-modem-daemon, which will do a bootup setup of slmodemd. After the installation, again copy in the slmodemd from my SLMODEMD-4.1 folder, to overwrite an older 2.9.9 version the package installed. Check with: $ slmodemd --version which should report 2.9.11 With $ sudo gedit /etc/default/sl-modem-daemon change the COUNTRY USA default to CANADA. This should manage bootup automation. Your can also $ sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon start, stop or restart You can try playing with gnomeppp and/or the applet modem-lights, but I prefer the manual controls, for troubleshooting. MarvS On Feb 15, 2008 4:31 PM, Syntactics <Syntactics@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > > >
