modem blues

[Jimmy Montague]

Hex Star wrote:
> note that cable internet is quite often better then dsl...if at all 
> possible I'd highly recommend you use cable broadband instead of dsl...
>
> On 4/16/06, *Jimmy Montague * <rhetoric101 at att.net 
> <mailto:rhetoric101 at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     Antonio Olivares wrote:
>     > --- Jimmy Montague <rhetoric101 at att.net
>     <mailto:rhetoric101 at att.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> --- Jimmy Montague < rhetoric101 at att.net
>     <mailto:rhetoric101 at att.net>> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>> I'm baaaaaack!
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Now I've got Fedora bootloader working, I've got
>     >>>>
>     >> a
>     >>
>     >>>> holnuther problem:
>     >>>> FC5 doesn't detect my modem. I've queried every
>     >>>> location offered in the
>     >>>> KPPP menu and shot craps every time.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> The device is an external USR hardware modem.
>     >>>>
>     >> It's
>     >>
>     >>>> plugged into a USB
>     >>>> port. Xandros detected the modem at location
>     >>>>
>     >> "Comm
>     >>
>     >>>> 8", if that means
>     >>>> anything here. How can I get Fedora to find the
>     >>>> hardware and use it?
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Thanks for any help.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Jimmy
>     >>>>
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>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>> Jimmy,
>     >>>    Become superuser
>     >>> $ su -
>     >>> psswd: *****
>     >>> # wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
>     >>>
>     >>> will scan the modem ports till it finds a valid
>     >>>
>     >> ones.
>     >>
>     >>> After it finds it use that one in KPPP.  Refer to
>     >>> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/post-install.html
>     >>>
>     >>> for help/other issues when using wvdial.
>     >>>
>     >>> Regards,
>     >>>
>     >>> Antonio
>     >>>
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>     >>>
>     >> Thanks Antonio. I did as you suggested. KPPP now
>     >> finds the modem and
>     >> probes it correctly, but I don't seem able to create
>     >> a dialup connection
>     >> correctly. Which is to say, I create the dialup
>     >> connection and tell then
>     >> KPPP to dial it. KPPP then goes to work -- and
>     >> nothing happens. I don't
>     >> hear dial tones or any other sounds coming out of
>     >> the modem. Bye and
>     >> bye, KPPP itself disappears from the screen AND the
>     >> task bar, and no
>     >> connection is ever made. So I'm still lost.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks for trying.
>     >>
>     >> Jimmy
>     >>
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>     >>
>     >
>     > Let us not give up so easy.  Could you do the
>     > following so we can determine what other things we can
>     > do
>     >
>     > $ su -
>     > pswd: ***
>     > # lsusb -v
>     >
>     > send us that information, and
>     > # dmesg
>     >
>     > The other thing to do and try is to use wvdial in the
>     > meantime edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf add your
>     > username, psswd:, phone number and make a script
>     >
>     > # script wvdialtest.log
>     > # wvdial
>     >
>     > # exit
>     > script created on .....
>     >
>     > attach the script and hopefully we can get to the root
>     > of the problem.
>     >
>     > Before I forget, when you need to use the modem to
>     > connect to the internet and you are also on a network,
>     > please run
>     > # ifconfig eth0 down
>     > and try to connect again.  This is a little thing that
>     > makes a big difference.
>     >
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Antonio
>     >
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>     >
>     My apologies to you, Antonio, but I'm blowing out of this thread.
>     Reason
>     being that I got a card from my phone company yesterday. They told me
>     they're offering broadband service now. So I signed up this morning. I
>     get my high-speed modem delivered by UPS on the 19th and service
>     starts
>     on the 20th. So I'm going to hook up through a network card and a DSL
>     modem next Friday. I see no reason, then, to put you (or me)
>     through any
>     more of this pain when, FC5 being the way it is, I may have to ask the
>     list for networking help next week.
>
>     Thanks for your trouble. I don't want to give you any more trouble.
>
>     Jimmy
>
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You're preaching to the choir. I know cable is better. I've had it 
before, when I lived in another locale. It isn't available in this dump. 
We just got dsl -- and that's what I'll get.

Thanks.