Modem Problems

[Justin Kelly]

Hi Bill

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> I want to be able to connect to my service provider by clicking on an icon (or some similar convenient technique). This should not require root privileges.
>

I wrote a program (http://easydialup.sf.net)) so that my wife could
connect to the net without knowing any system, isp passwords, numbers,
etc. might be what your after,(its a webbased dialup client for
ubuntu). Just  config it once, set it as your default homepage in
firefox. when firefox open click 'Internet On' and thats it :)

Re: pon
To get pon working i suggect running pppconfig from the commandline -
following the setup details - name the profile then run pon
$profilename

If you have any question re pon/pppconfig please dont hesitate to
email me off list - ive fought the ppp/linux battle to many times
already.

Cheers

Justin


On 12/5/05, Bill Cairns <CairnsWW at eskom.co.za> wrote:
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> I hope that the experienced members of this list will have the patience to deal with a complete Linux idiot like me.
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> I am playing with Ubuntu at home on a fairly (1999) old Dell machine. This is my first attempt at Linux. On Saturday I bought an external (Microcom DeskPorte Home) serial port modem. To my surprise I was able to install it and get it working without any great difficulties: I used the standard System > Administration > Networking.
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> But while it is working, it is not working very well:
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> The only way I can find of getting the modem to connect is by following the System > Administration > Networking route. Surely I should be able to connect without root privileges? Surely I should be able to create an icon that says "Connect to Internet"? Surely, if I tell Firefox to connect to an URL, it should have some way of initiating the connection and not just give me the informative message "www.x.y could not be found. Please check the name and try again"?
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> On a Debian site I read of the command pon and got temporarily excited as that seemed to be what I was looking for. But when I type pon (or sudo pon) I get:
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> /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option '/dev/modem'
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> which is not as helpful as I was hoping. (poff works fine).
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> The same helpful Debian article talks of editing the file /etc/ppp/peers/provider. I did this (setting "modem" to "ttyS0") but poor old pon tried and tried and tried to connect but achieved nothing. At least it did not give me that error message any more. I thought that I could reboot to get it to stop, but it started again as soon as the boot was complete. That will teach me to use Windows solutions on Linux.
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> I am sure that what I want to do is nothing extraordinary. In fact I am sure they can be done if I knew what how to do them:
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> I want to be able to connect to my service provider by clicking on an icon (or some similar convenient technique). This should not require root privileges.
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> When Firefox or another program wants to connect, it should happen automatically. It would be nice if it asked me first.
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> Connections should time out and disconnect if there is no activity after a certain time.
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> Help please.
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> Bill
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