I have Ubuntu 8.10 on a machine of mine for using & experimenting with. I must say i'm quite impressed with it on broadband. Now I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my dad's computer did all the updates and got it running in tip top shape fully updated. I then went to configure it for dialup. "he has no other cheap alternatives in his location" I've basically gotten the box to dial out but it won't stay connected. I know it's some kind of linux issue as it connects successfully with the user name and password. It errors Something along the lines of Ubuntu won't give out permissions to the user "Nick" to make changes on vdial? i think. I got frustrated after hours of messing with it and gave up. Any suggestions? I know it's some kind of linux issue as it connects successfully with the user name and password Oh yea i'm using a US Robitics PCI NON WIN modem. MSI K8N Neo AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.21ghz 1GB DDR 3200 nVidia N6600 256mb video Segate 200 gig sata NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW

You have to either get that modem to work with a how to guide if it is even supported. Otherwise you need to get an old hard modem (I assume yours to be a soft modem). They used to give the serial modems away but now kind of expensive. Not sure what your chipset is. You might have to scan it or even look at it. It might be a supported rockwell. See here to start. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.... Not sure if you can use ndiswrapper or not on them. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

It's not a soft modem. It works fine with linux. Back when I had dialup and tested Mandrake, Redhat,etc. it never had any issues part of the reason I kept it. I also have 1 or two of those US Robotics Serial modems. It too dials out and works well with linux. My problem is with a premissions issue with Ubuntu I can't figure out. Both pci and serial are easily recognized by ubuntu, configured, Initiate a dial tome, dial out the number, connect and get disconnected from a failure to make some kind of vdial thing. MSI K8N Neo AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.21ghz 1GB DDR 3200 nVidia N6600 256mb video Segate 200 gig sata NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW

what is your internet service provider & will they allow you to connect with just a user id, password & access number?? your situation sounds alot like what used to happen to me when I tried that with netzero, I would connect then THEY would disconnect. This had nothing to do with linux or my modem. http://www.copper.net/ this isp doesn't require you use their cappy software like aol or netzero. Although the last time I tried to connect with a free netzero account, using puppy linux about 2 months ago, I was able to connect and stay on, 2 consecutive days. This may have been a fluke but, it may be worth creating a free netzero account & trying it. If it works post back. larry

His internet is perfectpcdialup.com You can use their dial up or just a dial up networking connection. MSI K8N Neo AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.21ghz 1GB DDR 3200 nVidia N6600 256mb video Segate 200 gig sata NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW

Then send AT commands to modem and see if it replies. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

This is what I get when I try to connect, maybe perfectpcdialup is not compatible with linux? --> Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT edit this file by hand!" --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 --> Cannot set information for serial port. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATM1L3DT17657745043 --> Waiting for carrier. ATM1L3DT17657745043 CONNECT 48000/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. Level 3 Comm nas8.2in1 UQKT2 Username:/login:/Login: --> Looks like a login prompt. --> Sending: tbird@perfectpcdiallup.com tbird@perfectpcdiallup.com Password: --> Looks like a password prompt. --> Sending: (password) Request Denied Username:/login:/Login: --> Looks like a login prompt. --> Sending: tbird@perfectpcdiallup.com tbird@perfectpcdiallup.com Password: --> Looks like a password prompt. --> Sending: (password) Request Denied Username:/login:/Login: --> Looks like a login prompt. --> Sending: tbird@perfectpcdiallup.com --> Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best. --> Starting pppd at Tue Feb 10 19:04:57 2009 --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied --> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky. --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied --> --> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky. --> Pid of pppd: 5325 --> Using interface ppp0 --> Disconnecting at Tue Feb 10 19:05:02 2009 --> The PPP daemon has died: Authentication error. --> We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer. --> Maybe bad account or password? (exit code = 19) --> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. --> I guess that's it for now, exiting --> The PPP daemon has died. (exit code = 19) MSI K8N Neo AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.21ghz 1GB DDR 3200 nVidia N6600 256mb video Segate 200 gig sata NEC ND-3500AG DVD R/RW