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Originally Posted by klarsin
I went through the set up and clicked activate, and deactivate was grayed out thus telling me that the modem was in fact activated.
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Wouldn't deactivate being grayed out suggest that, in fact, it was
not activated? I.e. you can't deactivate something that is not activated, so they would gray the box out. Just a thought ...
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Is activate the same thing as connecting? This is confusing because I dont see any promt to connect. The word I'm looking for is "Connect". Or is "Activate" the the same as "Connect".
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I have not used Ubuntu, but
this link suggests it is:
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There was an "activate" button and after clicking on it the system was getting connected to internet by running pppd.
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Although it goes on to say that the button has been replaced by a checkbox in Ubuntu Edgy.
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Originally Posted by klarsin
Because my modem does nothing migh also tell me that it's not compatible with this system, or it is broke because it is real, real, old.
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If your distro comes with
minicom, I would suggest using it to try to talk to the modem manually. I would also suggest you first read
minicom's
man page; You need to first set it up by running
minicom -s as
root. Then you can run it as a normal user. This will let you determine whether you can actually talk to the modem, and if not, give you an opportunity to troubleshoot the situation without added complications. If/when you can talk to the modem with
minicom, if things still don't work, you can focus on higher level issues.
When you get
minicom set up and pointing at the modem, start it. After it does some initialization, it should print:
OK
If you then type
ATZ
is should give you another "OK."
