USR 5637 USB Modem in LXDE [solved]

[Davepet]

This modem works fine with PCLOS 2010 KDE using KPPP to configure it at /dev/tty ACM0.

KPPP isn't available in the LXDE version & PCC only offers ttys0 to ttys8 as options. How do I add /dev/tty ACM0 to the options in PCC?

Dave

[Neal ManBear]

These threads should help --
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,80097.0.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,79587.0.html

[Davepet]

Well, the thread on wvdial sounds good, but I can't install it without a connection to a repository.

The other thread led me to this page:
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html

But since this works fine with KPPP in the KDE version wouldn't all that be set up in the LXDE version too?

lsusb gives me: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0baf:0303 US Robotics in the KDE version, I'm going to boot up the lxde version & check a few things.

Dave

[Davepet]

After poking around inLXDE a bit, it was clear that the only problem was that PCC didn't have an option for  /dev/ttyacm0.

Then I recalled that I already had a local repository on a removable hard drive (I'd bought cds from OSDisc.com when I bought PCLOS KDE) it hadn't occurred to me that I could use that in LXDE to get wvdial. It took some trial & error in a terminal with wvdial & wvdialconf  but I'm now typing this in LXDE.

Thanks for the help,
Dave

In case someone else finds this & wants more details:

1-In a terminal, su to root

2-Type wvdialconf 

this will scan for your modem & return something like this at the end:

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Found an USB modem on /dev/ttyACM0.
/etc/wvdial.conf<Warn>: Can't open '/etc/wvdial.conf' for reading: No such file or directory
/etc/wvdial.conf<Warn>: ...starting with blank configuration.
Modem configuration written to /etc/wvdial.conf.
ttyACM0<Info>: Speed 460800; init "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=
3- From a root file manager, open /etc/wvdial.conf in a text editor, type in the isp phone #, your user name & password in the indicated areas, don't forget to remove the comment marks in front of each line.

4- from a terminal type wvdial & it should go through the steps to connect .

[Neal ManBear]

Glad you got it going.