[PLUG] Supraexpress isa modem problems

[Bill Barry]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:48:56PM -0800, Aaron wrote:
> 
> Thanks.  Yeah I also found that page, so I assumed that it wasn't a
> winmodem.  I was able to fix the problem, minus DNS resolution. This modem
> has jumper settings on it and I quess that the I/O settings on the card were
> in conflict with those preset by the board.  In order to get wvdial to
> detect the modem without having to use setserial was to change the setting
> on the bios for the serial ports to auto instead of having set I/O's.  I'm
> using wvdial to connect, and just put the nameservers into the resolv.conf
> file and rebooted to restart all of the services to make it easy on myself.
> Any suggestions? Is there a separate hosts file or something for pppd
> through wvdial that I need to add the dnsserver information into?
> 
> 

wvdial/ppp normally get the nameservers from the service provider when
negotiating the connection, it then puts those nameservers into
resolv.conf for you. If this is not happening, perhaps there are
permission problems. Are you running wvdial as root?

Bill Barry