ext modem

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Jack Hudson a écrit :

>Thanks for all help. I agree there should be better help in setting this
>up from the
>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3223&highlight=modem
>I presently am not connected to a land line but I want to be able use
>this setup when I travel. Is there a way to query the modem without
>going through pppconfig, wvdial, etc?
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>On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:50 +0000, mr_ed wrote:
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>>/dev/ttyS0 should be there regardless.  It may be necessary to do a
>>symlink to it from /dev/modem
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>>Check out this thread here:
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>>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3223&highlight=modem
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>>It helped me to get an external modem running.
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>>Open up a terminal and type "sudo ln -s /dev/modem /dev/ttyS0" if the
>>stuff at the link doesn't work.
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>>-- 
>>mr_ed
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If your modem is recognised by Ubuntu.
You can use gnome-ppp in the hoary repositories.
It 's a frontend of wvdial for gnome like kppp.