Problems with Intel 536EP modem

[Neil Woolford]

At 16:38 10/12/04, you wrote:

>As far as I know I've got things setup the same in pppconfig and the 
>network settings control panel, but when I execute the pon command (using 
>modem lights or at the terminal) the modem will pickup, dial, start to 
>connect and then either hang (the yellow light in modem lights keeps 
>flashing), or disconnect.
>
>some questions:
>Is there a log file somewhere that I will show what is happening and why 
>pon isn't working?

I'm away from my Ubuntu machine at the moment, but went through much the 
same a few weeks ago.

As far as I remember;

plog is a command that extracts the appropriate entries from the system log 
for you.

 >>Why would the Network Settings control panel work and not pon?

I gave up on network settings in the end, concentrating on using pon via 
modem lights.

I think the magic trick on my system may well have been to append ppp0 to 
the pon command,
but it is a few weeks ago and I'm not at the machine...

I also suspect that network settings uses wvdial, when modem lights uses 
pon, set up by pppconfig.

You can use wvdial ppp0 in the modem lights app too, but I couldn't get 
full control that way.



>How do I get the driver to load on system startup without me having to 
>manually modprobe it in?

If this hasn't been answered later I'll look at my system and check what I 
did, I either had to put the
module in a particular place and it was auto-loaded or I had to update a 
config file;  again, a few weeks
and I can't remember off the top of my head.  It wasn't rocket science though.

Neil
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