find modem

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 1/12/09, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: find modem
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 8:35 AM
> squareyes wrote:
> > John Heinen wrote:
> >   
> >> Davide Corio wrote:
> >>   
> >>     
> >>> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 12:36 -0700, John Heinen
> wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>     
> >>>       
> >> I did; applic >accesories > terminal sudo
> dmesg > password. result
> >> 339.574.770
> >> cde acm 4-7;20 tt ACM0 usb acm device
> >>
> >> Next sudo pppconfig. Create connection. Provider
> earthlink2, static
> >> 20769 188 185 and 20769 188 186 pap username xxxxx
> pasword xxxx
> >> modemspeed 115600
> >> tone, number to dial 637 3118, manual port ttYACMO
> >> Where did I fail? Thank you for your patience .
> John H cheers
> >>
> >>   
> >>     
> > Sorry forgot to mention that if you leave
> "provider" as is, you can 
> > connect with  pon
> > If you put in earthlink2  in there, you will need to
> connect with   pon 
> > earthlink2
> > poff to disconnect.
> > Winton
> >
> >   
> Great, thanks for the correction off Y and y. What and
> where are the
> instructions of pon?
> Thanks John H
> 
Man pon gives all the commands and options.  Usually just typr "pon"
on a CLI and it will dial your ISP and connect. Poff sends a SIGNHUP or something like that anyway that hangs up the phone and disconnects. IIRC, you don't need sudo. HTH
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net