Connecting to the internet from wvdial

[Jza]

So I got wvdial package after a while and use kppp to connect to the internet however I have some issues with X and I loose my connection everytime it crashes. My question is if I can use wvdial to connect and how?

 

When I try to use wvdial from the terminal I get wvdialconf and it goes to locate the modem, it does locate it but it can't get to configure it. So my issue has to do with how to configure my modem with wvdial .

 

The output it generates is something like this:

Scanning your serial ports for a modem.

Port Scan<*1>: Scanning ttyLT0 first, /dev/modem is a link to it.
ttyLT0<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: LT0
ttyS0<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S0
ttyS1<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S1
ttyS2<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S2
ttyS3<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S3
ttyS4<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S4
ttyS5<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S5
ttyS6<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S6
ttyS7<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: S7
ttySLT0<Info>: Device or resource busy
Port Scan<*1>: SLT0


Sorry, no modem was detected!  Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?

Please read the FAQ at http://open.nit.ca/wvdial/

If you still have problems, send mail to wvdial-list@lists.nit.ca.

 

Kppp is NOT running and the modem is 'available' it is indeed in ttyLT0 acording to the module and the modprobe conf.

[VeeDubb]

A simpler solution.

 

I dont' have kppp installed right now, but I used to use it when I was on dial-up. There is checkbox somewhere in the options for kppp that says disconnect on Xserver shutdown. If you simply uncheck that box, kppp will stay connected.

[Jza]

A thanks, I got it to work actually (wvdial) but I didn't know that about kppp. Another question, sometiems the modem don't free itself (it has itself busy). On Kppp I ust go to open a terminal and one of the menu actions is reset modem. I wonder if there is the command line method to do this.

 

Regards.

[bvc]

kppp can also be run from cli ...SEE in a terminal kppp --help

 

stop wvdial with Ctrl+C

or killall pppd

or /etc/init.d/ppp stop

 

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=2333&hl=wvdial

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=3300&hl=wvdial

 

gnomeppp is a gui frontend to wvdial

http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=41

urpmi gnome-ppp

should grab it for you. I d/k if it's on the cd's but it is on some mirrors.

 

http://www.davidpashley.com/tutorials/wvdial-pppd-dod.html

Edited May 9, 2005 by bvc