[ltp] my t23 modem, wvdial, reprised

[Michael Perry]

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?
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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