Now that's interesting. 'wvdialconf' worked delightfully. And
'minicom' is also working well now, after I created the /dev/modem symlink.
I was shocked to see 'wvdialconf' set the serial port at 460800. Now I
see why I saw it written that these modems might work at less latency
than hardware modems. That's much higher than anything I ever saw
before in serial (or virtual serial, in this case, I guess). RS-483 and
other RS-232 derivatives do run at that speed and higher, though, so I
shouldn't be too surprised, and 16550A does contain
RS-483...hmmmmm...:-) Well, the time has largely past for such, but I
can dream.
Unless something invisible's wrong with the hardware, I'll expect it to
work now. Many thanks.
I might be motivated enough to make something simple and graphical.
Anyone know a really simple toolkit? I do little programming these
days, because I have come to resist delving into arcana, but perhaps I
can find a toolkit to make it easy enough to be worth the while.
By the way, Marv, POTS means "Plain Old Telephone System" *grin*
J.E.B.
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.
