[ubuntu-za] USB Modem Driver

[Phillip Pare]

Peter Soulsby wrote:

> Hi all
>  
> I am having trouble setting up my modem on Ubuntu 5.10.  It's a 
> Duxbury 56k USB modem.  Ubuntu doesn't pick it up and, being new 
> to the Linux community, I am not entirely sure what to do next.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Pete

Hi

This is some correspondence that I had on the issue. In a nutshell, the 
suggestion given to me was to use
wvdial.

Regards

Phillip

Phillip Pare wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to disable dial tone detection when
> using internet dialup in ubuntu? In the networking app that comes with
> ubuntu one can specify the modem volume and other settings but I can't
> find the usual option regarding dial tone as found in kppp and gppp.
>
> Regards
> Aldo Barletta
> Dear Alan
>
> Dear Aldo
>
> I picked up this message of yours after having been referred to the 
> Clug group by Alan McKinnon
>
> May I take the liberty of asking you for some advice in view of your 
> own battles with dialup in Ubuntu. This is my question as sent to Alan
>
> ".. I am a prepaid Telkom customer and so I have to
> enter a single digit account number  and a four digit password to make a
> call. This account number password combination has to be entered about
> seven seconds after having dialled the number and in response to a voice
> prompt. I have not yet got it right to connect from home using Ubuntu.
> For the GPRS I gather I have to download some programs from the
> repositories. I could download them at work and the load them on the
> home machine but the problem then is to point synaptic in the right
> direction so as to get the programs installed.
>
> Could you perhaps point me to some succinct documentation that could
> help me with these problems. I have tried looking at the wiki and asking
> on IRC but I am still battling.
> I was told that pppconfig should be able to do the job but I have not
> been able to find the necessary instructions to configure pppconfig
> correctly."
>
> Thanking you for help.
>
> Regards
>
> Phillip Pare
>
>
Hi Phillip

I resorted to using a command-line program called wvdial to connect to 
internet. The internet connection software that comes with Ubuntu did 
not have any possibility of configuration (as far as I could tell).  As 
a bonus, one of the options that I found in wvdial ( start pppd 
immediately ) caused my dial-up internet connections to work better. I 
connect to internet via dial-up to Telkom Internet and I was often 
getting my connection dropped upon logging in. This added option has now 
made connecting effortless. I highly recommend using wvdial. Once 
configured you simply type "sudo wvdial" to connect.

On the gprs side, I have managed to get gprs working, but that was on a 
previous system that used Mandrake. I have not yet setup gprs on my 
Ubuntu system. If you are interested I will send you the scripts I used 
and I am sure you will be able to figure out how to adapt this to Ubuntu.

Regards
Aldo Barletta