[plug] almost there with wireless broadband modem....

Tomasz Grzegurzko tomasz89 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 21:19:13 WST 2006


Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 21:04 +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I abandoned kppp in favour of wvdial.
> 
> I don't claim any expertise, but I find that on different installs and
> different machines that one has to have more than one ppp dialler in
> your arsenal because sometimes one will work in one situation but not
> another.  For example, wvdial has caused me problems until I dug deep
> into its settings, but then it has worked 'out of the box' wonderfully
> well on another installation (I'm using it now).  Ditto kppp. Ditto
> 'config-network-devices' on a Fedora install.  Anyway, blah-de-blah, you
> have discovered all that already ;-). 
> 
> Post your /etc/wvdial.conf here and let's have a look.  Also say how
> you've got your broadband modem connected, ie, eth0 ttys0, whatever.
> 
> Gavin.    
> 
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I hate dial up =)

Tomasz



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