[ltp] my t23 modem, wvdial, reprised

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:31 -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
> Okay... per some suggestions from responders to my earlier email I
> downloaded and get the modem working.  There is some wierdness with the
> whole thing though.  On debian, there is this minimal tool (which I
> happen to like a lot) called pppconfig.  You can start a ppp connection
> by simply doing "pon nameofconnection" and stop one by doing "poff
> nameofconnection".   Works very well with the ltmodem except the
> non-standard /dev/ttyLT0 will not stick in the pppconfig script at all
> so I linked to /dev/modem and its fine.  But wvdial is my preferred way
> of doing things and I have had dismal failure with it.  It will not open
> the serial device at all no matter where I link it to including
> something like /dev/ttyS13 which is open for use I have read.  Wvdial
> just fails no matter what I do to open the serial port and dial.
> Minicom (man... it still looks the same :) ), works fine as does the
> debian ppp configurator.
> 
> Does anyone use wvdial with the ltmodem device on the thinkpad t23?

not a driect match, but wvdial works fine on the ltmodem device in my
t20.

> Care to do some good old fashioned sharing on how you did it?  I'm using
> debian unstable here with a 2.6.10 kernel.  I already packed up my
> laptop for a trip I am taking to the "land of no broadband", but
> basically wvdial says "failed to get information from the serial
> device".
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>