About setting up a dialup modem on Ubuntu 6.10 I have installed Ubuntu (on an old machine, Pentium 3 with 256Mb ram) and found that I couldn't connect using an external (serial) dialup modem using the options described in the DialupModemHowto/SetUpDialer page. I am using a 3Com/US Robotics 56k professional message modem (although I tried with another model as well). It was detected OK and I tried both serial ports just in case.
I found that the $ sudo adduser USERNAME dip and dialout settings were already made and that the Networking section didn't work for me, so I tried the default settings in wvdialconf and still no luck. I moved on to the suggestions so that I could pon and poff; still no positive result. However, by following the advice to check man wvdial.conf, I used the settings suggested there and I could get the modem to connect satisfactorily using sudo wvdial, nothing else seemed to work. The suggestion of setting up Modem Lights was attractive, but I couldn't find it amongst the options. When I right clicked on the top bar (as advised) I found that there was a similar offering (Modem Monitor), but that didn't work for me: I could set it in the top panel, but it didn't allow me to click into a connection .... even the one as configured with the man wvdial.conf settings (and now saved to wvdialconf). So at present I can connect using wvdial (from a terminal window), but only by replacing the default setting found there by those from man wvdial.conf. Maybe you have tried this ? At present I don't have a copy of Ubuntu 6.06, but if I can, I'll try installing that and see if the procedure given in DialupModemHowto/SetUpDialer is effective for my setup as I have heard that this had no problems for serial modems. -- cannot connect to internet via dialup https://launchpad.net/bugs/40592 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
