network-admin lets poor 9600 tty baud rate stand.

Thanks for your bugreport.

I think it's just a matter of adding
"115200"
at the end of the /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 file

Can you please check if that helps?

I uploaded a new version of gnome-system-tools and system-tools-backends into
the archive. It will now set the serial_speed to 115200. I would love to hear if
it fixes the problem for you.

I backed out my `115200' addition to /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 and instead
put it in /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 as requested but it only works
intermittently.

This is because there's various ways of going online. Using
network-admin to `Activate the modem connection' I see pppd has been
given all its options on the command line.

    root 8904 ? network-admin
    root 8907 pts/3 perl
                     /usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/network-conf
                     --report
    root 9055 ttyS0 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 noauth nopersist
                     nocrtscts defaultroute usepeerdns user
                     inputplus.freeserve.co.uk connect /usr/sbin/chat -v
                     -f /tmp/network-admin-chat-script-7vrIChYf4
    root 9066 ttyS0 /usr/sbin/chat -v -f
                     /tmp/network-admin-chat-script-7vrIChYf4

Without a `call ppp0' /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 is ignored.

Going online using modem_applet does use `call' so that works.

    root 10274 ttyS0 /usr/sbin/pppd call ppp0
    root 10303 ttyS0 /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/ppp0

As does `ifup ppp0' as root.

/etc/ppp/options{,.ttyS*} seems the right place for the baud rate since
pppd always looks there regardless of how it was started and we can't
guarantee `call' will always be used by everything.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I backed out my `115200' addition to /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 and instead
> put it in /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 as requested but it only works
> intermittently.
>
> This is because there's various ways of going online. Using
> network-admin to `Activate the modem connection' I see pppd has been
> given all its options on the command line.
[..]
> Without a `call ppp0' /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 is ignored.

This is fixed in the in the system-tools-backend upload in breezy. Would it be
possible to test that package?

> Going online using modem_applet does use `call' so that works.
>
> root 10274 ttyS0 /usr/sbin/pppd call ppp0
> root 10303 ttyS0 /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/ppp0
>
> As does `ifup ppp0' as root.
>
> /etc/ppp/options{,.ttyS*} seems the right place for the baud rate since
> pppd always looks there regardless of how it was started and we can't
> guarantee `call' will always be used by everything.

This would involve more changes in the backend perl script. This is something I
want to leave to garnacho (hi!) to decide.

Thanks,
 Michael

(In reply to comment #4)
...

> > /etc/ppp/options{,.ttyS*} seems the right place for the baud rate since
> > pppd always looks there regardless of how it was started and we can't
> > guarantee `call' will always be used by everything.
>
> This would involve more changes in the backend perl script. This is something I
> want to leave to garnacho (hi!) to decide.

Hi :), I'm a bit undecided about this, the best thing of all would be to make
the whole network backend aware of this option, even then, I wouldn't like to
store some settings in /etc/ppp/peers/* and other ones in /etc/ppp/options in
the debian case, I think that the best in the short term should be to hack
gst_network_enable_modem() function to specify the speed from network-admin as
well, as this would work for non-debian distros as well.

(In reply to comment #4)
> > This is because there's various ways of going online. Using
> > network-admin to `Activate the modem connection' I see pppd has been
> > given all its options on the command line.
> [..]
> > Without a `call ppp0' /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 is ignored.
>
> This is fixed in the in the system-tools-backend upload in breezy. Would it be
> possible to test that package?

Sorry Michael, but I'm still trying to get this 5.04 installation working,
e.g. email, given I had no network on installation, so I don't really want
to start mixing versions at the moment.

When I've got to grips with Ubuntu a little more, and hopefully got
broadband, I'll come back and try it if no one else has.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> I think it's just a matter of adding
> "115200"
> at the end of the /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 file
>
> Can you please check if that helps?

I have used ubuntu for one day now, had the same problem, and came up with the
same solution. This does work perfectly, so my modem now runs at 56k. I would
have tried the new packages uploaded, but they depend on 14.8MB of others -
seems too large for my modem, and too risky for a newby to start mixing releases :)

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> I have used ubuntu for one day now, had the same problem, and came up with the
> same solution. This does work perfectly, so my modem now runs at 56k. I would
> have tried the new packages uploaded, but they depend on 14.8MB of others -
> seems too large for my modem, and too risky for a newby to start mixing
releases :)

I uploaded (backported) hoary packages to:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/g-s-t/

please tell me if they work for you and fix the problem (make sure that you have
the
cd/the old packages available so that you can reinstall the old version in case of
problems).

thanks,
 Michael

(In reply to comment #8)
> I uploaded (backported) hoary packages to:
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/g-s-t/
>
> please tell me if they work for you and fix the problem (make sure that you have
> the cd/the old packages available so that you can reinstall the old version in
> case of problems).
>
> thanks,
> Michael

Works well. I could only install system-tools-backends_1.2.0-4ubuntu1_all.deb
since gnome-system-tools_1.2.0-2ubuntu2_i386.deb still had many dependency
problems requiring large downloads.

I'm also glad to see that it no longer auto-dials when I login.

Thanks,
Saul.

This is fixed in the gnome-system-tools version in breezy. It now sets the
default speed to 115200 in pppd. Please reopen if you still have problems with
the breezy version.