modem usr 5637

[Nils Kassube]

John Heinen wrote:
> Aha, I am getting there, thanks for getting me on the way, but if I
> would have asked you the way to Washington DC , you could say  " just
> take your car and drive east ."
> So, where do I go and find this  'wvdial' ?  Go to system?, click on
> computer?, click on network?, click on ? and on?

Good point. Wvdial is a CLI program, i.e. you have to open a terminal and 
type the command wvdial. However that isn't exactly true as well because 
first you would have to configure the modem. I just connected my old 56k 
modem and tested how it works - you need this command:

sudo wvdialconf

The modem was connected via a serial <-> USB converter and it was found at 
the right port /dev/ttyUSB0 without extra input and I didn't need an init 
string because the configuration program is "intelligent" enough. 
Probably it will find your modem as well without extra input. However I 
didn't test how to setup and connect to a provider because I don't have a 
dialin provider any longer. If you really want to use wvdial, you will 
have to look at the documentation. You can use the command

man -a wvdial wvdialconf wvdial.conf

to read a lot of info which will hopefully get you started. Or you can 
read the individual man page sections if you enter "#wvdial" etc. into 
the address bar of konqueror.

And now you can probably forget (nearly?) all of what I wrote before 
because I would recommend to use the program kppp instead. It is a GUI 
program and is probably easier to setup. You can find it in the internet 
section of the K-menu. In the configuration of kppp you have to select 
the port for your modem (/dev/ttyACM0) and again I didn't need an init 
string for the modem. The rest should be more or less obvious. And now 
I'll put that old modem away again :)

> I won't quit though, because some day I too will be a full fledged
> Linux operator, click here, click there, and finally get to where I
> want to be. Please don't take this as being sarcastic, no, absolutely
> no,  I and many others appreciate your input. Grandpa

I don't take it as being sarcastic. Sometimes I (and probably others here 
as well) need a reminder that what is obvious to me isn't obvious to 
everybody.


Nils