How to make my modem pulse dial?

[Bill Adam]

I have installed Puppy 4 in a Pentium 2. It has recognized a USR internal modem.
Puppy insists on dialing tone. I manually edit the configuration file: /etc/wvdial.config
by entering: ATDP instead of the default ATDT. Even though I save the changes
the file DOES NOT REMEMBER WHAT I HAVE DONE !

[sky king]

Do you mean the file does not actually save, or even though the file is saved, the modem doesn't dial out with pulse?

[Bill Adam]

The changes I have made to the file are not remembered. It reverts back to ATDT.

[rerwin]

Bill Adam,
Thank you for reporting this. I have been working with PupDial to support various modems. I will add this to my to-do list.

In the meantime, here is a workaround fix:

1. Open /usr/sbin/pupdial as a text file.

2. Find the following section of code, which starts at line 474 in puppy 4.1.2:

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DIALSTR="ATDT"
[ "$CHECKDT" = "true" -a "$CHECKBC" = "true" ] && DIALSTR="ATDT"
[ "$CHECKDT" = "false" -a "$CHECKBC" = "true" ] && DIALSTR="ATX3DT"
[ "$CHECKDT" = "false" -a "$CHECKBC" = "false" ] && DIALSTR="ATX1DT"
[ "$CHECKDT" = "true" -a "$CHECKBC" = "false" ] && DIALSTR="ATX2DT"

3. Following that, insert the line:

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DIALSTR="`echo "$DIALSTR" | rev | cut -b 2- | rev`P"

Tha actual fix will be messier than that.
Richard

[rerwin]

Bill Adam,
Instead of the above workaround, you can now install my "patch2" from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 575#329575
Just edit the wvdial.conf file as you have been doing, and it should remain until you change it to anything other than "DP", which will result in its being set to "DT".

How common do you think the need for pulse dialing is? Are there parts of the world where that is all that is available? If so, I could add it as a PupDial check-box for each account.
Richard