Kendall,
I am happy to see that your modem works because this is finally what it
shoud have done - you had correctly set it up as I kept repeating.
Now to your two questions.
1-You cannot surf.
This is a FAQ for which several reasons are possible and several cures
for some of these reasons.
Let us stick at this time to the most frequent one and cure it by the
simplest cure - brute force.
Before you start wvdial please do:
sudo ifconfig (you may need to explicit the path as in sudo
/sbin/ifconfig )
If you see in the result of that command a block labelled eth0 , stop
that Ethernet interface by
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
eth0 could be eth1 etc...
If you are not sure send us the output of sudo ifconfig
2-Using an alternate to wvdial.
Depending on the alternate (sorry to be vague, I never use them), it may
be trivial, difficult, or impossible, to set the modem in its
configuration under the name of /dev/ttySL0 assigned when you start
slmodemd.
However all these alternates know modems as /dev/modem so you can cheat
with command
sudo ln -sf /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem
given once you have started slmodemd of course ( /dev/ttySL0 exists only
while slmodemd is active).
Jacques
Kendall Brown wrote:
