On 21/Mar/09 09:52 , "Michael McDonald" <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I set up a user with a trial of Ubuntu, an external modem, and a KOL connection. (Would be lovely to have broadband, but in this situation broadband is "not on").
Dialup seems to be changing! I had a few problems during testing connecting to Xtra (see http://wlug.org.nz/Xtra ) ... Xtra's prompts upset wvdial. I thought "Oh well, if I can get Xtra to connect, I ought to be able to get KOL to talk using the same technique".
I've got a debian machine connected to KOL that I had similar issues with - in the end I crafted a kol peers file in the /etc/ppp directory, and connect using pon kol. (I just place a menu item in to make it easy) --- kol file --- name kol connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/kol" usepeerdns defaultroute 115200 noauth /dev/ttyS0 user "/replaceuser here/" --- end --- --- chat scripts file --- TIMEOUT 60 ABORT ERROR ABORT BUSY ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" "ATZ" "" "AT&FH0L3" OK-AT-OK "ATDT087305656" TIMEOUT 75 CONNECT --- end --- Also needed is an entry in the secrets file to store the password against the username. I did try to configure it all through the gnome GUI - but the results were very ... Inconsistant. HTH. Warren.