[ltp] my t23 modem, wvdial, reprised

[Michael Perry]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:11:22PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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.

Hi Nick-

Thanks for the email.  Seems like I have an issue with wvdial where it
cannot open the serial device.  If I use xisp or pppconfig on debian it
all works fine.  I've gotten a bit of advice on how to get ltserial
setup and I'm gonna give it a try this evening in the hotel.  I'm on
broadband wireless all afternoon thankfully so I don't have the desire
to experiment with dialup.

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