[wellylug] Setting Up Dialup Modem in Ubuntu 8.04
Rob and Carla
r.wall at paradise.net.nz
Tue May 20 22:19:15 NZST 2008
Ahem... Yes it works (good stuff) but only if I use the 'sudo wvdial'
method in the terminal. Is there a way I can make whatever wvdial is doing
the default?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob and Carla" <r.wall at paradise.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:22 PM
Subject: Setting Up Dialup Modem in Ubuntu 8.04
> 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
>
>
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