On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use > > > a few tips. > > > > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about > modems than I realized. > > I'm now using gnome-ppp as a dialer, which uses wvdial as a backend (I > think). I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for my > Agere WinModem. Besides that, I'm testing with an external modem (usb > connection). > > I can get gnome-ppp to recognize both modems. But when I attempt to > dial, I don't hear a dialtone or any dialing. Almost immediately the > application says something like "sending password", and it hangs there. > Of course it's going to hang -- it has not connected yet. > > So I'm thinking maybe I need some kind of initialization string for the > modem. Are they specific to a certain model of modem? Is there > something else I should be trying? > My problem was that I hadn't specified a username and password -- only a phone number. For some reason, that caused dialing to fail, jumping right to sending the (non-existent) username and password.
The other problem was gnome-ppp. It didn't hold its settings. Sometimes I needed to logout and/or reboot in order to change the account settings. Switching to wvdial eliminated that variable. Also, I stuck with the Agere WinModem and used martian-modem. That seemed to work just fine. If it was my computer, I would have switched to a hardware modem. But this was a freebie installation of Debian on a friend's crashed Windows machine. I set up a launcher in the Gnome panel to edit the wvdial settings in gedit (phone number, etc.), and another launcher to run wvdial in a terminal. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111208000823.gc27...@aurora.owens.net
