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<blockquote type=cite cite> Hi all,<br>
I am tryiing to set up an Acer (Aspire 3610 model) laptop for dial
up. The laptop don't have one of the most handy interface namely serial
port. To connect to a serial port, one has to use a usb to serial cable
and I find that very un-ideal. (Why the heck leave out a serial port and
then turn around and start selling usb to serial cables?). Beside
financial implication, I can't now figure out how to map ppp connection
on. The first 4 ttyS* port looks like this to setserial <br>
linux:/home/William # setserial -a /dev/ttyS0<br>
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4<br>
Baud_base: 115200,
close_delay: 50, divisor: 0<br>
closing_wait: 3000<br>
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
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What I don't like is the lack of UART. What is the implication of
above?<br>
I thought of mapping it to the USB device, but that even look worse to
setserial<br>
linux:/home/wambugu # setserial -a /dev/usbdev2.1<br>
Cannot get serial info: Inappropriate ioctl for device <br>
Okay, one last shot I gave it one more shot<br>
linux:/home/William # wvdialconf
/home/William/Desktop/wvdial1.txt<br>
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.<br>
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Port Scan<*1>: S0 S1 S2
S3<br>
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Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another
program?<br>
Did you configure it properly with setserial?<br>
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From the above queries, I decided to map modem to /dev/ttyS0. I also
gave /dev/ttyS1 a shot with no success<br>
Now I hope that is enough information about the laptop. I believe
some information about where the serial cable terminate would be
important. It connects to a Huawei ETS2577 handset. The handset connect
to the ISP through Qualcomm 3G CDMA wireless technology. I am also really
hoping that UART will be inside this phone set, but I aren't sure of
that.I believe this is sufficient information, but would happly suppiy
more information is needed.<br>
Now, how can I make this setup work? I have been using wvdial and
below is its configuration<br>
[Dialer Defaults]<br>
Modem = /dev/ttyS0 <br>
Baud = 115200<br>
Init1 = ATZ<br>
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2<br>
Init3 =<br>
Area Code =<br>
Phone = 777<br>
Username = some_name<br>
Password = some_password<br>
Ask Password = 0<br>
Dial Command = ATDT<br>
Stupid Mode = 1 <br>
Compuserve = 0<br>
Force Address =<br>
Idle Seconds = 300<br>
DialMessage1 =<br>
DialMessage2 =<br>
ISDN = 0<br>
Auto DNS = 1<br>
Now, is there anything that I could have done wrong?.And does
wvdial use /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file? What is the sure way of knowing
that you are mapping an application to the right /dev? The link between
the handset and ISP is fne for sure since I can make phone calls from the
handset, so the issue has to be wvdial configuration and the ttyS0
interface. Oh, and my ISP is hostile to Linux, so I don't expect much
help from them. <br>
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Thanks a lot in advance<br>
William</blockquote><br>
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