getting modem to work in hoary

unisol · 05-14-2005, 11:30 AM

i installed a usrobitics internal pci pro 56k modem and cannot figure out how to configure dial-up i tried pppconfig, wvdial, and minicom in minicom it says initializing modem but when i try to type the AT command minicom doesnt allow me to type anything. i also d/l gnomeppp a front end gui for wvdial but when i try to launch it it says cannot execute child process can someone help me

Boow · 05-16-2005, 11:49 AM

If its not a hardware modem then you've got problems. You might try www.linmodems.org to see if its supported.

unisol · 05-16-2005, 11:28 PM

it is a hardware modem i finally got it to dialup but it doesnt hold the connection ln -s ttyS14 and it dialed up now if i could get mozilla firefox to work with it anyyway im halfway there

unisol · 05-19-2005, 11:08 AM

ineed to know how to configureppp in hoary

ingvildr · 05-19-2005, 01:46 PM

try this
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DialupModemHowto

unisol · 05-20-2005, 01:29 AM

i used minicom which was reading my modem at ttyS1 i changed that to ttyS14 as is in the wvdial.conf pppconfog dials up but i get no connection(msn.com) when i use minicom i dial AT it says ok when i use it to dial up to msn i get a log in to which io type username it wont allow me to type in the password then it times out

ingvildr · 05-20-2005, 04:27 AM

if it says its connecting but hangs look at

Code:

sudo nano -w /etc/resolv.conf

It should have your nameservers in there if it doesn't add them.

Code:

nameserver <server here>

unisol · 05-24-2005, 10:04 AM

i tried what you said no luck minicom connects me then i can do nothing that link you gave me is broken

ingvildr · 05-24-2005, 11:32 AM

sorry, i corrected the link

unisol · 05-25-2005, 10:21 AM

i tried everything you said to the letter no luck,then i tried to install gnome-ppp-0.3.21 when i did ./configure it got to the end and said it neededlibgnomeuiand GTK2.0 which are both installed of course it couldnt find them. then i tried amsn to which it said it neede TSL.sf which is also installed on my computer do i have to point to the dir they are in

unisol · 05-30-2005, 11:53 AM

itried to load amsn it said connecting to server then error connecting to server could not find socket anyone help