90% of the time this works fine. Some modems take rather a long time to negotiate and if you can't edit the timeout directly, there are other things you can do to make ppp keep trying to negotiate longer than the default. If a modem is interfering with the operation of other phones on the same line I would suspect lightning damage, and that's not something you can fix in software... On 17/03/2008, Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have been following this thread because a friend has an external RS-232 modem on his Linux desktop. We have been trying to get this going under Gutsy for a few weeks now. I will try the suggestions made in this
On 17/03/2008, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote: thread.
When we have worked it out then I'll write up a HOWTO and post it to the wiki.
I set up two friends with an old computer, external modem (RS232) and Ubuntu 7.04, and got them to use wvdial to connect. Both are going fine, as far as I'm aware.
All both users needed was a cheap system to give them email and the ability to view most attachments. Ubuntu gives them a nice consistent system, free from any surprises (I hope!)
Michael
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