Connecting to Sympatico via modem on Linux

[Craig Routledge]

On 11/12/2004 01:49:54 PM, Paul DiRezze wrote:
> Ok, the computer sees the modem, dials and seems to connect correctly  
> with Sympatico's modem but something is screwing up at this point because  
> it just hangs up and re-dials.  I keep changing settings from what I can  
> glean from Windoze and Mac dial-up instructions but no luck so far.

> Does anyone have any experience connecting to Sympatico using a modem  
> under Linux (Fedora Core 3 to be exact)?

Well I've been using wvdial for awhile now.  A few months ago Sympatico  
changed something at my access point and I had to set "Stupid Mode = 1" in  
my wvdial configuration.

Lifted from "man wvdial.conf":

> Stupid Mode
> 
> When wvdial is in Stupid Mode, it does not attempt to interpret any  
> prompts from the terminal server.  It starts pppd immediately after the  
> modem connects.  Apparently there are ISP’s that actually give you a  
> login prompt, but work only if you start PPP, rather than logging in.  Go  
> figure.  Stupid Mode is (naturally) disabled by default.



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