Turn on stupid mode by default or retry with stupid mode if 'carrier lost'

[Alexander Sashnov]

Binary package hint: gnome-ppp

Problem with GPRS connection in Russia with two mobile operators: MTS and SkyLink.

Both don't show login/password text prompt.

With MTS connection setup long time- about 40 sec.

But with SkyLink I get wvdial error 'Carrier lost' after ~30sec after dial.

Stupid mode = on help in both case- connection setup fast and works.

Need turn on Stupid mode by default or re-try connection with stupid mode and if it success, use this.

[Lorenzo Bettini (bettini)]

The same problem seems to exist for Italian providers (with 56k modems): I tried many of them, and only if Stupid mode = on the connection successfully establishes

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Do you still have this issue with a recent version of Ubuntu, such as Karmic or Lucid?

[Alexander Sashnov (sashnov)]

Ubuntu 9.04 karmic
gnome-ppp-0.3.23-1ubuntu2

Actual result:
Problem still present: in modem setup dialog ("Setup" button in main window) checkbox "Wait for dialtone" default is checked
and it produces "Stupid Mode = off" in ~/.wvdial.conf

Expected result:
"Wait for dialtone" will be unchecked by default, "Stupid Mode = on" in ~/.wvdial.conf

[ManDrive (roman-romul)]

This bug was fixed in gtk-ppp (gtk3 fork of gnome-ppp): https://sourceforge.net/p/gtk-ppp/code/24/