Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (118 mails)

[Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 05, Sonja Krause-Harder wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
> > 
> > I have a Apple PowerBook Pismo/FireWire up and running with Suse7.3PPC.  
> > I'm impressed by this distribution, but for some reason I can't get the
> > modemn working - which is funny since Wvdial worked fine on the same
> > machine with Suse Linus 7.1PPC.
> 
> I had the same problem (first after updating 7.0 -> 7.3, then again after
> complete reinstall), and ended up replacing wvdial 1.42 (the version on
> the 7.3 CD) with an older rpm (1.41) I had lying around. An ugly fix, maybe,
> but I forgot investigating further, as it has been working fine ever since.
> 
> (PowerBook Firewire 400Mhz with whichever internal modem Apple built into
> it, the problem was wvdial never getting to send the modem initialization
> string and just giving up at some point. No error messages on the console,
> nothing in /var/log/messages. No idea.)
> 
> Is there some public bug-reporting tool for stuff like this? I'm always
> willing to file bug reports, if needed :)

You already found the place to report bugs ;)


Try to increase the modem port speed, the default is 57600 and that does
not work for some modems, ibook1 as example. Does that help?


Gruss Olaf

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