---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: alxobr@xxxxxxxxx Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:31:53 +0000 Subject: Re: Alexandre Oberlin, Italy, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic - Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy To: Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> Hello Marvin, Thanks a lot for your suggestion. In fact I had done exactly what you say upon receipt of Antonio's message. So for the first time I could hear the modem dialing in Linux ;-) ( slamr has always been desperately mute). Everything goes on without a single error. Well this was for the good part of it... Then I only had "NO DIAL TONE' or 'NO CARRIER'. Also with standard ISP, and also when adding "Init3 = AT MS=34" to wvdial.conf What I did is try again with slmodem-2.9.11-20080417 This time I added ungrab_winmodem and the ungrab_winmodem preliminary installation directives found in sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb: to a file /etc/modprobe.d/slamr which I created ####################### alias char-major-242 slamr install slamr modprobe --ignore-install ungrab-winmodem ; modprobe --ignore-install slamr; test -e /dev/slamr0 || (/bin/mknod -m 660 /dev/slamr0 c 242 0 2>/dev/null && chgrp dialout /dev/slamr0) ####################### I could connect like I already did once, very slowly. Browsing the web was almost impossible, but I could download a 11 M file with wget, at approximately two thirds of the usual speed. Sometimes it stops, and then continues faster than before. Pinging may work normally, or hang, or take ages, also when giving IP numbers. I am considering to reinstall sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb which contain a lot of module directives and just change the slmodem and ungrab_winmodem binary files. My laptop is a Unika with lot of VIA hardware. This is one of the worst experiences I had in 10 years of Linux, though I had severe trips with SBLive and alsa in the past. It remains difficult to recommend Linux under those conditions. And of course the fault is not Linuxers's who make a fantastic job ! Those winmodems are a terrible war machine. Well I thought Ubuntu would bring me extra comfort ;-) Thanks again Antonio and Marvin for your concern, AO -- C'est une chose extraordinaire que toute la philosophie consiste dans ces trois mots: « Je m'en fous. » Montesquieu (1689-1755)
