Re: you actually want me to remove the physcial chip from my laptop?!??! NO, I presumed it was a desktop. I'm separately sending you a scanModem update, which should deal with the two audio card case. MarvS On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ezekiel Krahlin <ezekielk@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Your system is complex because it evidently has 2 audio cards > > Uh, yes, it was designed for surround sound (four speakers and such)...which > is certainly not important to me...didn't even realize it was. I use > ordinary stereo speakers and/or headphones. I got it because it was an > excellent deal, high quality, and elegantly designed...to complement my > humble (but delightful) HannsNote Netbook. > > 16" screen, 3G RAM, AMD dual core 2GHz CPU, and so on. I purchased it mostly > for Windoze games, and (in Linux) viewing movies and TV shows at a local > wifi coffeehouse. Essentially, it's my "desktop replacement"...I'd never > dream of lugging it around, beyond my own apartment's neighborhood. But I do > use it for Internet and other stuff, too...all in Linux (I *only* use > Windoze for da games). FYI, you may view the laptop and specs here, from > where I ordered it (just $400, refurbished...CompUSA has a very high > customer rating, since they've gone online): > > http://tinyurl.com/ycwomob > > I have neither high-speed internet nor cable or satellite TV at home, so > it's a real treat to watch wide-screen shows via public wifi; it's free! > Though my 10" netbook is perfectly fine, too, this Acer laptop is such > pleasure to operate. > > But I do enjoy using old-school dialup from home, and why I was delighted to > discover my new Acer had an internal modem. > >> and my scanModem cannot automatically handle that unusual case (yet). >> Whether the modem software is sophisticated enough to work in that >> environment, I'm not sure. > > If worse comes to worse, I'll just stick with my USB modem (which I'm > running right now)...whatever it takes to avoid Windoze Vista. It's just > that I resent not being able to use a perfectly good internal modem, I hate > wasteful redundancy...plus, I guess I'm orifice-retentive. :P Also, I'm > just learning Linux, and I enjoy the learning curve. > >> I recommend that you remove the one without the modem chip hosted, >> and try to thus get on line first. > > Egads, I think I just realized your intent here: you actually want me to > remove the physcial chip from my laptop?!??! I think you've overestimated my > skills, as no way am I ready to muck with the hardware of an expensive > laptop I just purchased. Sorry. > > Perhaps there is a way to *disable* this sound chip via a (software) system > setting? > >> Under the current setup >> Stop running: >> $ sudo agrsm-test >> because everytime it remains the old /etc/wvdial.conf and writes a new >> one. >> Display these files with: >> $ ls -l /etc/wvdial* > > Yes, I discovered that last night, when I first went ahead to edit > wvdial.conf. > >> /dev/ttySAGR is a symbolic link to the real port /dev/ttyAGS3, created >> when you >> $ sudo modprobe agrserial >> which also preloads the agrmodem. > > Aha, I see! However, I just looked under /dev, to see only /dev/ttyAGS3 > (between /dev/tty63 and /dev/ttyS0). > > I went ahead and edited wvdail.conf according to your instructions, but got > this result: > > -- > acer zeke # wvdial > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyAGR3: No such file or directory > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyAGR3: No such file or directory > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyAGR3: No such file or directory > acer zeke # > -- > > So I decided to try it again with /dev/ttyAGS3, and got this: > > -- > acer zeke # wvdial > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 > --> Initializing modem. > --> Sending: ATZ > --> Sending: ATQ0 > --> Re-Sending: ATZ > --> Modem not responding. > acer zeke # > -- > > Onward and upward? Thanks once more, for you patience and Linux wisdom. > > - Ezekiel K. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > >
