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I don't know how skilled you are with your router settings but you might try this...

The first thing I would try is changing your router wireless settings to use wireless G only, and not wireless...

Asimov's Lije Bailey series; Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots & Empire
The Door Into Summer by Heinlein
I'm another big fan of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber...

About 6 months ago I wanted to putz around with a Linux laptop & bought a refurb Thinkpad. It's been great & if I wanted another laptop that's the first thing I'd look at.

Staples & Tiger Direct...

Ages ago (like back in the last century) there was a "unix toolkit" for ms-dos which could be found for download on many of the old bulletin boards. It contained some of the most commonly used unix...

Have a look at this thread or this one.

justamel:

If you are in the US I'll send you an external hardware dialup modem at no cost. Just PM me if you're interested.

About a year ago I bought a Dell computer with Ubuntu installed instead of Windows. I think Dell still sells Ubuntu machines.

My vote goes to West End (Draught or Export) from South Australia. "The West end of the day is the best end of the day".

It all depends on the video drivers. My laptop has Nvidia video & using the proprietary driver available in Synaptic I had no trouble doing exactly what you describe.

Check for any other files in the /etc/ppp directory & inspect them for speeds. If no speed is mentioned, as in the files you've posted, that's ok. If they have a line with a speed other than 115200,...

Check the files

/etc/wvdial.conf

/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial

/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial-pipe

and see that they all have the same speed setting. (just set them all to 115200). If one file has one...

You might install cutecom & have a look at that. It's designed for this type of task, communication with a locally connected device. Minicom & other such programs are designed for communication with...

This line:


should be two lines:

Init2 = ATZ
Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0

This is not true and it is quite irresponsible to make such a statement here as some people may believe it.

I use a dialup modem with Ubuntu 8.10 every day.

There is a little more info in this...

I have one of those monitors & I needed to do nothing to set it up. After plugging the monitor in & booting up the display was set properly without making any changes to anything.

What did your...

Not all USB modems are hardware modems.

This one works perfectly in Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10.

This one works perfectly in Ubuntu 8.10, but it is too new for 8.04. Yes, I know that the manufacturer...

What type of modem?

I have a friend who scrounges up old dial-up modems & brings them to me. I have 7 USR 56k modems of different vintages & types: serial (RS232), USB, & internal, another USB...

Your problem may be that Ubuntu simply doesn't know what resolution your television supports.

Most modern computer monitors have a function called EDID which allows the operating system to "ask"...

For the dial command, try

gksu wvdial

or, in a terminal the command would be

sudo wvdial

In /etc/wvdial.conf edit the lines with phone number, username, etc, removing the semicolons at the start of those lines.

OK, remove the "Stupid Mode" line, since it didn't work.

The first login sequence you posted shows a successful login. The problem is that the ISP doesn't start PPP and wvdial cannot figure out...

If you are meaning connecting the telephone line to the ethernet card, no that won't work.

A dialup modem has circuitry, called the Data Access Arrangement (DAA), which allows connecting directly...

Try it before you buy it. Just turn off images in Firefox & see how you like it.

These folks can tell you all about it.

This is a very unusual login sequence. You might try adding the line:

Stupid Mode = 1

to your /etc/wvdial.conf file. This command will start ppp immediately upon connection & do the login...