[lug] Newbie tries to make laptop modem work

[John Karns]

It looks like your wvdial.conf is configured either explicitly or by
default, to use the eth0 interface instead of your modem.  My wvdial.conf
has the following:

[Dialer Defaults]
... [stuff snipped] ...
Modem = /dev/ttyLT0

Of course any such modem line in your cfg should be modified appropriately
for the specific device name of *your* modem.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net


On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Glenn Murray said:

>
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, D. Stimits wrote:
> > If you just run wvdial at a prompt and not background it, it will appear
> > to just sit there once you are connected; the connection dies when you
> > kill the prompt program. So run it in the background instead:
> > wvdial whatever &
> > (notice ampersand '&')
> >
> > Now if you still can't get in/out, it means you have not attached a
> > route to the device, preferably a default route. Try checking the output
> > of "route" both before and after the connection. Don't know kppp, can't
> > comment on it.
>
> So I tried the ff:
>
> glenn at puck:glenn/$ sudo route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> localnet        *               255.255.192.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> default         138.67.1.1      0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
> default         138.67.1.1      0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0