Dialup from a fedora machine

[Stuart McGraw]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:
>> I am having a bit of an emergency.  I just lost
>> my regular medium speed internet connection and
>> am going to need to use dialup until I can buy
>> some replacement equipment.
>>
>> So I am trying to setup ppp/dialup (anyone remember
>> that? :-) on my Fedora 11 machine (something I did
>> years ago in FC4 days).  I have a USR-5610B modem
>> in a pci slot.  But Fedora seems not to notice it --
>> when I reboot Anaconda fails to notice any new device
>> and I see no /dev/modem.
>>
>> Not sure what to check.  I think the modem is ok as
>> I have two of them and the same problem with both.
>> AFAIK, the modem is real modem, not one of those
>> Win-modem things.
>>
>> Is there anything special I need to do to make Fedora
>> aware of this thing?
>>
>> -- fedora-list mailing list
> 
> If your modem is a REAL MODEM, then all that you should do is the following opening up a terminal shell
> 
> $ su -
> passwd:
> # wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
> 
> it will scan and try to find a port could be /dev/ttyS0, ..., /dev/ttyS3, ..., etc.  Then you edit the username, phone number and password and you should connect without problems.  
> 
> Also, 
> You can try the configuration via NetworkManager, but I am more knowledgeable with wvdial and I can advise you with that better.  I use winmodems and compile drivers for them :) [with exceptions of some of them :( ]  

I tried wvdialconf but it says, "sorry, no modem found.  Is it
in use by another program?  Did you configure it properly with
setserial?"  Not sure what that last bit means but I think
setserial needs a serial device to configure and it is that
device that I seem to be missing.

NetworkManager too wants a device to talk to, with /dev/modem
being the default but since there is no such device (nor anything
I see that looks like it would be an emulated serial device that
talks to the pci modem card), I wasn't able to do much with that.

I found a USR support page which lists Linux as a usable OS
and a rpm which looks a little small to be a driver but I'll
see.

BTW, thanks for your earlier reply to my lcd monitor/x11 config
question.  Haven't had a chance to get to it yet because of this
latest disaster, but will soon.