Dail up and Konsole problems

Nathan Emily and Quincy Watts wattsne1999 at cox.net
Wed May 25 01:31:19 UTC 2005


Hi
 You may need a different modem. Linux does not always use the same modem.
I had to changemine when I used dialup.
nathan Watts
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken McLennan" <kenrmcl at dnet.net.au>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Dail up and Konsole problems


> G'day there Mate,
> 
>> I have Compaq presario 2100 with winXP Pro and Ubuntu
>> 5.04 on it. 
>> I have two problems:
>> 1-) I have been trying to use dail up to
>> connect(Genome PPP) but the modem  doesn't seem to
>> work. When I try to use detect modem it gives me the
>> following error "no modem was found on your  system" 
> 
> I had a similar problem whenever I tried to use WvDial. I've never got
> it to work yet on any of the distributions I've tried, including Warty &
> Hoary. I currently use yawmppp and it's faultless.
> 
> I did get the Gnome dialler to work previously by using pon & poff but
> on first use it gave me the same error that you've listed.
> 
> I found in my case, that I didn't have a symlink between /dev/ttyS0 (my
> modem port- yours may be different), and /dev/modem. When I made the
> link it worked fine, but was deleted every time I rebooted. I still
> don't know why. I resolved the issue by referring directly to /dev/ttyS0
> instead of /dev/modem in any scripts. Works fine now.
> 
>> 2-) When I start Ubuntu it gives me the following 
>> message "Failed to load image kosole Details: icon not
>> found" 
>> Any ideas? 
> 
> Can't help with that one, sorry.
> 
> See ya
> Ken McLennan
> Qld, Australia
> 
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