find modem

[John Heinen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Mon, 1/12/09, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> John Heinen wrote:
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>>>> Davide Corio wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 12:36 -0700, John Heinen
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>>>> I did; applic >accesories > terminal sudo
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>> dmesg > password. result
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>>>> 339.574.770
>>>> cde acm 4-7;20 tt ACM0 usb acm device
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>>>> Next sudo pppconfig. Create connection. Provider
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>> earthlink2, static
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>>>> 20769 188 185 and 20769 188 186 pap username xxxxx
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>> pasword xxxx
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>>>> modemspeed 115600
>>>> tone, number to dial 637 3118, manual port ttYACMO
>>>> Where did I fail? Thank you for your patience .
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>> John H cheers
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>>> Sorry forgot to mention that if you leave
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>> "provider" as is, you can 
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>>> connect with  pon
>>> If you put in earthlink2  in there, you will need to
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>> connect with   pon 
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>>> earthlink2
>>> poff to disconnect.
>>> Winton
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>> Great, thanks for the correction off Y and y. What and
>> where are the
>> instructions of pon?
>> Thanks John H
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> 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
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I got it all done, internet provider, details, phone nu, pasword etc.
Now /type into terminal , pon, to make the connection, what I get is In
file /etc/ppp/peers/providers;unrecognized option '/dev/modem
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