How to set up dialup in Ubuntu 9.04

[zijin_cheng]

Hi, i went to the ubuntu help section for setting up dialup and it helped up to a stage, and now i need specific instructions for my modem. i used scanmodem but it just tells you whether the modem is there, but now what do i do....

Also, when i right click network connections then properties, it tells me its not installed properly... i know i need to download a file but i can't remmeber where to find it...

Also, how do i login automatically as root and not as zijin (i don't want to have to switch).

[sahabcse]

For login as root account just enable "Allow local system administrator login"
in system>>preference>>security>>login window.

Give url will help for configure dialup network

Setting up Dial-up connection in Ubuntu|Ubuntu Geek

[zijin_cheng]

i've already went there, and the hard part which i don't understand what to do to install drivers for my card and the rest is easy. (and even worse downloading takes so long on dialup vista) I was wondering if anyone could help me in stupid terms how to do this. (also i need the correct version of drivers because it takes me 15mins to download one and i don't want to download the wrong one!)

Here's what i understood from scanmodem (also upped modemdata.txt):

Modemdata.txt:
The ALSA verion is 1.0.18
The modem cards detected by "aplay -l" are: None

The drivers are in the kernel modules tree at:
/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
The modem codec file for the HDA card is: /proc/asound/card0/codec#1

The audio card hosts a softmodem chip: 0x11c11040

Support type needed or chipset: agrsm

The AgereSystems/LSI agrsm code supports compiling of a agrmodem + agrsm driver pair.
One resource site is ttp://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/]Index of /packages/ltmodem/11c11040
Thereat get the agrsm_howto.txt and one of the agrsm-tools packages.
The initial agrsm_howto.txt compiling steps are only cogent to modems with PCI IDs:
11c1:0620, 11c1:048c and 11c1:048f chips.
They use the agrsm-20090418.tar.gz package.
The agrsm-tools sets a useful symbolic link and a agrsm-test utlity

For AgereSystems/LSI with Vendor 11c1 chips hosted on High Definition Audio cards, there may be support
through the agrsm resources (providing an agrmodem + agrserial driver pair) as an alternative to usage
of the snd-hda-intel driver + slmodemd helper. For the 11c11040 modem chip, ONLY the agrsm code is competent.
Your Linux distro's dkms package should be first installed, as it directs the installation of modem
specific dkms-agrsm resources, and also directs auto-installation of new drivers upon kernel upgrades.

Currently, the dkms-agrsm code is NOT competent for 2.26.28 and later kernels.
A short term fix is to install linux-image + linux-headers packages for earlier kernels.
For detailed instructions for Ubuntu Jaunty with 2.6.28 kernels, see ttp://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg01316.html
11c11040 Agere/LSI modem for temporary Ubuntu Jaunty fix

The primary dkms-agrsm resource site is ttp://linux.zsolttech.com/linmodem/agrsm/]Index of /linmodem/agrsm
whereat a few different packaging types are available. Debian type installers (supporting Ubuntu too)
are copied to ttp://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/]Index of /packages/ltmodem/11c11040 . Thereat the current package
is the dkms-agrsm_2.1.80-6_i386.deb is for Agere/LSI chipsets hosted on High Definition Audio cards.
Read the Modem/DOCs/Agrsm.txt for details.