Dial tone problems

[Dale]

Hi Winton,

Have you installed gnome-ppp on to his system, it might have an option
to disable dial tone detection before dialling.

<snip>
:~$ apt-cache show gnome-ppp
Package: gnome-ppp
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 600
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Zak B. Elep <zakame at spunge.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3.23-1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1), libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libcairo2 (>=
1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1),
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), libpango1.0-0 (>=
1.14.4), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3,
libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.26), libxrandr2, libxrender1,
wvdial
Conflicts: resolvconf
Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-ppp/gnome-ppp_0.3.23-1_i386.deb
Size: 84046
MD5sum: 121507f8cd2b84709231a514b5fb6fde
SHA1: 0501e5fc1257124d35b9c449544dbca3315bf616
SHA256: fc8541de285797db930e80648f1cfc567c41297a80d524f44c341a60b77a5bb4
Description: modem internet connection tool for the GNOME Desktop
 GNOME PPP is an easy to use graphical dialup connection configuring
 and dialing tool with system tray icon support.
 .
 It uses GNOME/GTK+ for its graphical interface and integrates well
 in GNOME desktop environment, but it can be used in other environments.
 .
 It also uses WvDial dialer as its backend, providing simple configuration
 via config files. You can also use plain wvdial if you don't have X running.
 .
  Homepage: http://www.gnome-ppp.org/
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu
</snip>

Regards
Dale

On 9/14/07, squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> have a friend who is now trying Ubuntu, but is having dial tone problems.
> He has a Telstra pre-paid service, and needs to be able to turn off Dial
> tone before
> the modem (external) will allow connection, something to do with the
> "Prepaid" service.
> Anyone have any clues I could pass on to him?
> Many thanks in advance.
> Take Care
> Winton
>
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