Jon, Most of us use wvdial. The setup is # sudo wvdialconf which should report finding the modem, and generate /etc/wvdial.conf Edit it with # gedit /etc/wvdial.conf removing the ; < > symbols while putting in your personal info. And add two lines Carrier check = no # is needed for modems using /dev/pts/N ports Subsequent dialout is with: # wvdial I'm not familiar with POTS MarvS On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Many thanks for the enormous work on the 'martian' driver; it is now > working well according the 'dmesg' et cetera. I'm not sure the best way to > do a basic AT command query anymore (minicom doesn't seem to want to run but > it does not seem to have been worked on very much), but I figure if the > driver says it's OK, I should probably be going to PPP anyhow. This brings > me to my question: how in the world do you do PPP over POTS on Fedora > 13?!!!??? I did a whole lot of searching for docs, found lots of requests > but no info. Lots of things have changed in the ten years since I last set > up PPP over POTS on Linux!!! I would love to either keep NetworkManager or > wicd, but I thought I should consult wiser heads before moving on, > especially when the RT*M method did not come up with anything clear. > > J.E.B. >
