[wellylug] Setting Up Dialup Modem in Ubuntu 8.04

[Rob and Carla]

Thanks heaps for the responses.  I've been trying your suggestions as well 
as other advice I've been given.  The good news is that it's just fired into 
life!!!  Wow.  In case it's helpful to others that come along later, the 
route to fixing it was this;

1.  Your diagnostic showed that the modem didn't work at all on 25pin serial 
cable but it found a modem with the serial/usb converter on /dev/ttyUSB0. 
So I changed to that port (that was one issue sorted).
2.  Your other diagnostic wasn't really necessary at that point but it 
seemed to confirm that the usb/serial cable worked.
3.  The kind gentleman I bought the modem from on Trademe suggested a few 
things including the advice here,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/SetUpDialer#head-f5120acdc3ef62fe7d37bfd3f0c9157ebe9c8ef6
4.  I checked and I was already a 'member' of dip and dialout.   $ sudo 
adduser USERNAME dip   $ sudo adduser USERNAME dialout
5. I had a go at gksudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf and gksudo gedit 
$HOME/.wvdial.conf.  The idea was to enter my dial-up data manually 
(username, password, etc).  I wasn't 100% sure whether I saved the 
information successfully but I think I did.
5. I followed the instructions for Alternative Way 1 (using wvdialconf & 
wvdial) on the website above, including running $ sudo nano /etc/wvdial.conf 
and entering the settings they suggested, except for X3, which seemed to 
cause a problem.
6. When I typed 'sudo wvdial', off it went!

Even looking back at what I did, I don't understand it, but the modem's 
working!

Thanks very much for helping.

Rob