Not enough options to allow some modems to work / hard-coded values not always usable
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-ppp (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-ppp
There aren't enough config options in Gnome-PPP to get my modem to work. Here is the wvdial.conf file that I need to use:
[Dialer Defaults]
Stupid Mode = on
Idle Seconds = 0
Carrier Check = no
Init1 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = USB Modem
Phone = #777
Password = "telecom"
Username = "mobile@jamamobile"
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 460800
My modem is the software modem on an HTC Apache (commonly the Sprint PPC6700). I haven't been able to find enough knobs in the Gnome-PPP software to make a config file that works. Specifically, a few things such as the dial string and init string seem to be hard coded!
I have worked around this problem on my own setup by just patching the code to always call wvdial pointing at my own config file, and not use the built-in one at all.
Network Manager is even worse, and has about 3 configurable options in total!
I tried putting the correct config in ~/.wvdial.conf but Gnome-PPP just overwrote it before I could get it to work.
| Michael Fincham (fincham) wrote | #1 |
| Michael Fincham (fincham) wrote | #2 |
IMO, now that I think about it, this should really go upstream...