Ezekiel, Attached USB devices are: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device ID 04d9:0420 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. ID 1241:1603 Belkin ID 0416:5518 Winbond Electronics Corp. 4-Port Hub ID 064e:a103 Suyin Corp. ID 04fc:0c25 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd are sharing Modem interrupt assignment and sharing: 16: 225 147475 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel ---------- so a first option to try is detaching all these USB devices, which may be given higher priority for resources than modem functionality. All just before starting a wvdial out, from another console watch kernel messages with: $ sudo tail /var/log/messages & MarvS On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ezekiel, > > Sorry for interrupting, but since you want to try it out further, you > can try unloading script. > > You may try unloading script: > > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/unloading.gz > > Download it copy to your linux partition, and run > $ gunzip unloading.gz > $ chmod +x unloading > $ sudo ./unloading > > Then after it is done, try the console based wvdial not (gnome-ppp) > and see what it outputs. If you don't have username, password and ISP > phone number add it and remove the ";" which are used for comments. > Try that and report back. > > Regards, > > Antonio > > On 1/23/10, Ezekiel Krahlin <ezekielk@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Quoting Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> >>> A next step to >>> try is shutting down Audio functions, which sometimes interferes with >>> agrsm modem drivers. >> >> Sounds like a plan. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> >