package: pppconfig version: 2.3.20
pppconfig (running in tty3, as root) failed to detect my USB mobile broadband device. pppconfig then offered to let me choose the device manually, '(*) Manual Enter the port by hand.' So I selected <OK> pppconfig replied 'Enter the port your modem is on. /dev/ttyS0 is COM1 in DOS. /dev/ttyS1 is COM2 in DOS. /dev/ttyS2 is COM3 in DOS. /dev/ttyS3 is COM4 in DOS. /dev/ttyS1 is the most common. Note that this must be typed exactly as shown. Capitalization is important: ttyS1 is not the same as ttys1.' To obtain the above result, I inserted my mobile broadband device into a USB socket and, as root I gave the command pppconfig, and, I input the following into pppconfig:- Create Create a connection <OK> Provider name: 'Three7' <OK> (*) Dynamic Use dynamic DNS <OK> Authentication: CHAP <OK> user name my user name password my password ( which is probably not needed) Speed: 2048000 <OK> Pulse or tone: (*) Tone <OK> Phone Number: '*99#' <OK> Choose modem config method: <Yes> pppconfig offered 'Manual Enter the port by hand' <OK> It produced the list of options which I have typed above. I prefer that it correctly detects a mobile broadband modem on the port /dev/ttyUSB0. Failing that I would like pppconfig to include /dev/ttyUSB0 in its list of options when the user has to enter it by hand. { severity: wishlist It would also be nice if pppconfig were to suggest the telephone number *99#, if it detects the USB mobile broadband device. } Thank you very much for maintaining pppconfig. It is usefull, especially just after installing Debian from DVD. I wish that DVD-1 always contained pppconfig, so that we can use ppp. Best regards Richard Betham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201401021735.00198.rich...@betham.org.uk