Networking :: cannot get ppp to dial up/recognise modem on lapto

HI all

have tried Ubuntu on this laptop and despite pretty much loving it, had to bin it off as the modem support for winmodems is pretty much non existent out of the box, which in my opinion, sucks.

Anyway, read a few thread and heard that DSL is the way to go as agere/lucent winmodems are supported, "cool" I thought. Same as no dial up no nothing on this laptops winmodem.

I followed this and it didn'y work:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....l=agere

I've read through these threads and I generally get the impression that DSL should be finding my modem no problem, but it ain't
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....6c2a132

SO, what now - suggestions please.

Linux is of no use to me if I cannot get online with it.

Toshiba Equium laptop, agere (win)modem,

What is the result of

lspci -vn | grep 11c1:04

The above command is looking for the Lucent family of WinModems.

If nothing is returned then you probably have a different modem.

Do just the command lspci and look for the WinModem and note the first column code.

Then try

lspci -vn | grep put_result_code_from_above

Look at results and note the third column.
That is your vendor code for your WinModem.

hmm
curious

I am unable to enter
'lspci -vn | grep 11c1:04' as one command as I am unable to enter the symbol | which is peculiar, anyway

I entered lspci and the line that referred to the modem read
'0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc. Unknown Device 434d (rev01)' which I find odd as under windows the system brings back the name Agere as the modem vendor

so what do I do now?

right

I've used the AIDA program to have a delve into what my modem actually 'is' after finding that DSL reported it as being ATI

Aida reports it as Toshiba Software Modem with an Agere driver. It reports that it as 'NoDB' and that is it device 20 on Bus0 and is function 6, oh, and that it is a PCI device.

I have no idea if this will help in the diagnosis.

original here.