Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks

[Tony Addis]

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, harry at ipunix.com <harry at 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.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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