2 >& 1 , is used to record the session and not fix the NO CARRIER issue. ## To make a logfile wvdial.out # wvdial 2>&1 | tee wvdial.out --- On Wed, 6/25/08, Edison <edison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Edison <edison@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: About 2>&1 > To: discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 9:31 PM > This is strange case for me. > > When I do #wvdial > > It will result in NO CARRIER > > But when I do #wvdial 2>&1 > > I get CONNECT > > What is 2>&1? Confused ... > > I thought 2>&1 is to put error(stderr) to > output(stdout), but why it > solved the NO CARRIER problem? No it did not solve the NO CARRIER problem. What might have solved it, was correcting the typo Carrier Check = no in /etc/wvdial.conf The 2 >& 1 is for creating a wvdial.out file to record the session so that you can send it to list so that they/we can help you with troubleshooting your connection. If you read carefully in the folder Modem/ there is another folder called DOCs/ in which there is a file wvdial.txt which recommends that you do this ## To make a logfile wvdial.out # wvdial 2>&1 | tee wvdial.out Please check out Jacques' post-install page: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/post-install.html Please read Modem/DOCs/wvdial.txt so that you can find out what the +MS=90, +MS=34, I use these initialization strings so that I can connect. When your connection appears to have connected, please open up another termianl and type $ su - password: # ifconfig -a save the output and send it to us. Regards, Antonio
