Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks

[harry at ipunix.com]

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

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From: "Dale" <quail.linux at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:39 AM
To: harry at ipunix.com
Subject: Re: Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks

On 29 March 2010 14:17, harry at 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
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