Well said Harry, my members in the retirement village just want things to work, the terminal would terrify most of them. I have waited until I was confident of back-up for Ubuntu, which we now have, and will be introducing it when LTS version 10.04 arrives.
Regards, Tony On 30 March 2010 18:42, ha...@ipunix.com <ha...@ipunix.com> wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Thanks for your input, much appreciated; however the point that I am making > is that we must think along the lines of someone plugging in a device and it > will work, like with searching for a printer. As long as this function is > not complete we will not see much laptop/notebook users convert to Linux > (Ubuntu). > > Using the terminal should only be for a Linux expert or a keen user that > wants to learn and experiment. > > Regards, > > Harry Degenaar > > > > ------------------------------ > *From*: "Dale" <quail.li...@gmail.com> > *Sent*: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:39 AM > *To*: ha...@ipunix.com > *Subject*: Re: Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks > > On 29 March 2010 14:17, ha...@ipunix.com wrote: > > ....... > > Currently one item most important to the laptop/notebook user is the use > of > > a Next "G" wireless broadband modem. Telstra, Virgin and all other > providers > > that I know off give no support for Linux at all. There is support for > > wireless broadband modems in some of the implementations of Linux such as > > Ubuntu, however to get a device to actually work is a hit and miss > exercise. > > > > I would like to know on any of you that have experience in getting a Next > > "G" wireless broadband modem to work on Ubuntu. > > > > Hi Harry, > > I have had no problems getting getting 3G to work under Linux with > wvdial or pppd. I don't use network-manager (aka network-mangler) as > it is just to problematic. Also the WICD[1] network manager has > support planned for PPP, PPPoE, and Mobile Broadband for version 2.0 > which will be released in the late future. > > If you not mind using terminal, read on > > here is basically my pppd dial demand setup on firewall/gateway/router > > # cat /etc/ppp/peers/internode > /dev/ttyUSB1 > 460800 > crtscts > modem > noauth > defaultroute > noipdefault > noccp > nobsdcomp > novj > user "" > password "" > connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/peers/chat-internode" > idle 300 > persist > demand > logfd 6 > > > # cat /etc/ppp/peers/chat-internode > ABORT BUSY > ABORT ERROR > ABORT 'NO CARRIER' > REPORT CONNECT > TIMEOUT 10 > "" "ATZ" > OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"ip","internode" > OK "ATE1V1&D2&C1S0=0+IFC=2,2" > OK "AT+IPR=115200" > OK "ATE1" > TIMEOUT 60 > "" "ATD*99***1#" > CONNECT '\d\c' > > And as root all you need to do is issue the commands for example, > pon internode - connects to provider (internets) > poff - disconnects for internets (provider) > > > And for a wvdial setup you can refer to this post[1] and there a gui > that can be used with wvdial called gnome-ppp. > > Regards > Dale > > [1] http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/webblog/archives/136 > -- > [WWW] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/ > "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level > of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > >
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