Liam,
The Ubuntu 7.10 installer's sl-modem-daemon installs a file
slmodemd which is obsolete while the slamr- driver installs one which
has been updated for your kernel 2.6.22-14-generic.
This is why sometimes your modem is detected and sometimes not. Please
understand taht we out here have no control on what Ubuntu installs.
Therefore the thing to do is to have sl-modem-daemon installed first,
and then only the slamr file.
Actually, you installed the slamr file and could see the modem, then
added the daemon which replaced the good slmodemd file by the bad
slmodemd file: then of course you can't see the good file nor the modem.
Finally you installed the good file again and thus can see the modem.
Now please understand this:
1-sl-modem-daemon does not do anything more than automatically blindly
starting the program slmodemd which actually controls the modem - to
save you typing one command to start slmodemd.
2-We always recommend to use wvdial rather then "more friendly" tools
such as Gnome-PPP because their friendless also includes masking error
messages. Without error messages, you cannot know what went wrong: my
first bet would be that the modem waits for a dial tone which seems to
neither pop up because the driver simply does not detect tones.
This would give a clear message using wvdial.
To use wvdial you must first start slmodemd if not already running with
the command:
sudo slmodemd -c COUNTRY /dev/slamr0
where COUNTRY would be USA or something like it (see in your
ModemData.txt how to find the country if needed).
Now DO NOT STOP slmodemd , just go on working in an other window.
use once for ever
sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
wvdialconf will recognize your modem.
Edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf (see
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/wvdial.html
to adjust phone number, username, password)and add one line to
/etc/wvdial.conf while editing:
Carrier Check = no
Save and exit the editor.
Now type sudo wvdial and your modem should start.
Or it will tell you why it fails.
If you insist using Gnome-PPP , the only thing I can suggest, which
possibly but not necessarily solves, is to add X3 in the modem
initialisation string, where Gnome-PPP sets up the modem.
Jacques
Liam wrote:
Hi,
I really need some help setting up and configuring my dial up modem in
Ubuntu 7.10. I know Windows very well, but am still learning and
finding my way around Linux.
So far i have run ScanModem and run setup in the
slamr-2.6.22-14-generic package and also installed the GnomePPP but
still can't seem to get the modem working properly.
Since installing the above, a Motorolla SM56 Data Fax Modem is now
listed in the Ubuntu Device Manager.
GnomePPP detects my modem at /dev/ttySL0 but still cannot make calls.
The Ubuntu update manager now wants to update the sl-modem-daemon
(Version 2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4). I initially installed this
update but this caused GnomePPP to no longer detect my modem. So i ran
the setup in the slamr-2.6.22-14-generic and the modem is detected by
GnomePPP again.
Should i install this update or ignore it?
I hope i haven't messed everything up.
Thanks a lot for everyone's help. It is very much appreciated.
Liam
