Dial up modem problems - again

[Sasha Tsykin]

Bill Cairns wrote:

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>I lost my uBuntu 5.4 completely when the power tripped in the middle of upgrading to 5.10.
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>So I installed 5.10 from scratch.
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>Of course, being a good IT man, I had all my important data files backed up.
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>But, being a very out of practice software man, I did not back up my "provider" files. Nor, being a very bad documentation man, did I document what I had done to get everything working in the first place. So I am now trying to re-engineer my solution for connecting via a dial up modem to the internet.
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>(I am using pppconfig to create the "provider" files and then pon to connect).
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>I have reached the stage where I seem to be connected to my ISP (the modem lights all say that I am connected anyway), but Firefox can't connect to anything. It looks to me as if I do not have an IP address, but I am not sure if I am looking in the right place.
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>Is there a log file somewhere that I can look at to see what is going on with the modem connection?
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>Any other suggestions? Any differences between 5.4 and 5.10 that I should know about in this area?
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>Thanks,
>  Bill
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There is an easier way to set up a dial-up connection. Go to systems => 
Administration => Networking. Type in your password when prompted. 
Double click on modem connection. Select "Enable this connection" and 
type in the phone number, etc. Then go to the Modem tab and click 
autodetect. Your modem should now run. (This worked for me)

Sasha