No Carrier Problem with Via AC97 Modem

I'm running 9.3 on an Acer Aspire 1522LMi. The internal modem is a VIA AC97 chip set. I loaded the smartlink-softmodem package and was able to configure the modem. I can get it to dial out, but it fails on Carrier Detect. Searching on google, I found that you need to add 'Carrier Check = no' to the wvdial.conf file. I did that, but the log view still shows kinternet looking for the carrier. The AT&C* commands don't seem apply with regards to detection. Can anyone help me with this? Barry