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cant set up dial up modem support in 9.04

Asked by Peter

When installing 6.04, then 7.04, then 8.04 I first checked that I could dial out with my external Genius 56K modem and it worked perfectly so I did the installations (obviously 1 year apart).
However the 9.04 live disk would not allow that to happen so I decided to stick with 8.04.
After obtaining another bigger hard drive and doing an image copy I decided to risk installing 9.04 but I am back on the 8.04 disk to ask this question.
Progress:-
I installed gnome-network-admin package which gave me access to Sys-->Admin-->network (This should have been on the live disk for people new to Ubuntu)

However there is no Unlock button as in 8.04 and required for 9.04 according to their help, so I could not save any settings and could not connect.

I then did sudo pppconfig and filled in all the details.
pon provider (or KOL) in my case said I had to be the dip group. sudo adduser peter dip said that I was already in the dip group and same with sudo adduser peter dialout
but pon KOL still will not work.
I think that Ubuntu is very very good and would rather stay with 8.04 for years rather than go back to windows, but this aspect of 9.04 is atrocious as many new to Ubuntu are still on dial up. How can I fix this and get feedback to the Ubuntu developers.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#1

I decided to give pppconfig one last try and it worked. The problem was a failure to read the instructions correctly. My apologies for wasting your time. I am answering this from 9.04 and I hope updates will correct the Sys-->Admin-->network problem.

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Jean (jean-druel) said : 		#2

Hi, I'm sorry I'm quite new in Ubuntu and I have exactly the same problem as you:

I then did sudo pppconfig and filled in all the details.
pon Link in my case said I had to be the dip group. sudo adduser jean dip said that I was already in the dip group and same with sudo adduser jean dialout
but pon Link still will not work.

Where did you get the right info to solve this one?

Thanks.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#3

Hi Jean,

I tried sudo pon Link (Link in your case only of course) and it worked. Just good luck that I tried it.
The instruction I failed to read in pppconfig was to push the space bar to get dynamic DNS in the appropriate menu but I scrolled down to it and pushed return. Also once connected the updates corrected the Sys-->Admin-->network problem.

Regards
Peter

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warchief (derek98204) said : 		#4

Unable to get a dial up, have 9.04 I have been trying to download 2.26.1 gnome-network-admin package. Would someone know the link? Also a newbie and can not find the path to type in pppconfig, would someone also know this? is the sudo pppconfig and all the details going to be too complex? Newbie 1kenobe

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#5

Try
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty-updates/gnome-network-admin