John, Sometimes a Pause is needed to get through a local switch board. Implement a 1 second pause with a comma, per changing Phone = 01983311111 to Phone = 0,1983311111 or may be Phone = 01,9,83311111 MarvS On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John, > > The part where you are getting > >> ERROR >> --> Invalid dial command. > > > Check this page out, it might help? > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=857515 > > Something could be wrong in the wvdial.conf, you may carefully look > over the file wvdial.txt found in Modem/DOCs/ folder generated by > scanModem. ÂIn there it provides examples and troubleshooting tips. > Also you may look over at Jacques' Post-Install howto/guide here: > > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/post-install.html > > Regards, > > Antonio > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:10 AM, John Smithson > <johnhsmithson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dear Sir, >> >> Thank you so much for your help so far >> >> Following a couple of emails I received from Antonio Olivares and some >> more from Marvin Stodolsky I have made some progress. >> >> I nutted out that it should have been $ sudo modprobe martian_dev, which >> I did, and then the other commands you listed. >> >> I now can get the modem to start Âand dial but it then crashed out >> please see below - it seems very close now. >> >> Here is the terminal output: (I can hear all the noises and even on the >> phone in the house if I pick it up): >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ sudo wvdial >> --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 >> --> Cannot get information for serial port. >> --> Initializing modem. >> --> Sending: ATZ >> ATZ >> OK >> --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 >> ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 >> OK >> --> Modem initialized. >> --> Sending: ATDT01983311111 >> --> Waiting for carrier. >> ATDT01983311111 >> --> Timed out while dialing. ÂTrying again. >> --> Sending: ATDT01983311111 >> --> Waiting for carrier. >> --> Timed out while dialing. ÂTrying again. >> --> Sending: ATDT01983311111 >> --> Waiting for carrier. >> NO CARRIER >> --> No Carrier! ÂTrying again. >> --> Sending: ATDT01983311111 >> --> Waiting for carrier. >> ATDT01983311111 >> ATDT01983311111 >> ERROR >> --> Invalid dial command. >> --> Disconnecting at Thu Feb 17 17:33:19 2011 >> >> And here I copied one of your commands for Derek: >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ sudo ls -l /dev/ttySM0 /dev/pts/* >> crw--w---- 1 jonathan tty   136, 0 2011-02-17 17:37 /dev/pts/0 >> crw--w---- 1 nobody  dialout 136, 1 2011-02-17 17:33 /dev/pts/1 >> c--------- 1 root   root   Â5, 2 2011-02-18 04:23 /dev/pts/ptmx >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    Â10 2011-02-17 17:33 /dev/ttySM0 >> -> /dev/pts/1 >> jonathan@jonathan-desktop:~$ >> >> Here is my wvdial.conf: >> [Dialer Defaults] >> Modem = /dev/ttySM0 >> Baud = 460800 >> Init1 = ATZ >> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 >> ISDN = 0 >> Modem Type = Analog Modem >> New PPPD = yes >> Carrier Check = no >> Phone = <my ISp tel No> >> Username = <my user name> >> Password = <mypassword> >> >> If you can, I would be grateful for a little further help. It cannot be >> far off now! >> >> Regards, John >> >> >
