<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:51 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Send Ubuntu-zw mailing list submissions to<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <br> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw</a><br> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <br> You can reach the person managing the list at<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <br> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br> than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-zw digest..."<br> <br>Today's Topics:<br> <br> 1. Re: Econet and headaches (Simpson Moyo)<br> 2. Re: joni-hopley expired from team (Jonathan Hopley)<br> 3. How do i? (Jeff Chivheya)<br> 4. Re: How do i? (O. Sinclair)<br> 5. Re: How do i? (Raymond Swart)<br> 6. Re: How do i? (O. Sinclair)<br> 7. Re: How do i? (Raymond Swart)<br> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Simpson Moyo <<a href="mailto:simpsonmoyo@gmail.com">simpsonmoyo@gmail.com</a>><br>To: Kalpesh Thaker <<a href="mailto:luminary06@gmail.com">luminary06@gmail.com</a>><br> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:10:58 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] Econet and headaches<br>Hi,<br><br>With the setup i did for my friend you can:<br><ol><li>do time billing and set maximum download speed... so if you give someone 30 mins or 1 hour you can set the download speed to 56k so they can do decent browsing but cant abuse the connection by doing heavy downloads... <br> </li><li>you can also do time+usage billing where a person buys 1 hour/10mb so which ever comes first they get disconnected...</li></ol>Simpson<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Kalpesh Thaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luminary06@gmail.com" target="_blank">luminary06@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">this is tricky, what you may be looking for is a bandwidth shaper or bandwidth manager.......<div> in any case, because econet charge on usage, you now have two issues to address --></div><div><br></div><div>1 - the amount of time someone may be occupying a workstation</div> <div>2 - how much bandwidth they are using</div><div><br></div><div>initially, you only had to worry about how much time someone was occupying on a workstation, </div><div>because your bandwidth was a set fee...and you could use as much as you wanted to.</div> <div><br></div><div>there are alot of commercial bandwidth shapers.. but they get very expensive.. </div><div><br></div><div>the easiest and most viable solution is for you to implement a squid proxy, using ACL's and delay </div> <div>pools.. you can actually create 'bucket' rules that can be IP specific.. so if someone uses up</div><div>15mb, the connection can slow them down, or cut them off once the limit has been reached.</div><div><br> </div><div>more information can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/squid/aclsquid.html" target="_blank">http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/squid/aclsquid.html</a></div> <div><br></div> <div>and here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DelayPools" target="_blank">http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DelayPools</a></div><div><div></div><div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:57 AM, O. Sinclair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:o.sinclair@gmail.com" target="_blank">o.sinclair@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Friends,<br> <br> we support 2 small sites where they among other things offer internet<br> access (read sell it). They were using the "old" Econet 25/USD per month<br> package and could then charge for time, printouts etc. How it worked is<br> another story.<br> <br> These computers use KDE Kubuntu 10.04 btw, am considering upgrading to 10.10<br> <br> The new "bundles" is a major headache... how do they now charge? If one<br> user sits on Facebook/Youtube for x minutes and chew up bandwidth how do<br> you measure/charge for that? Another simply reads email, checks out<br> newssites and does research, can sit for much longer but use much less<br> bandwidth...<br> <br> Anyone else in this fix, anyone knows a tool that measures "used<br> bandwidth" and could possibly cut at a reached amount?<br> <br> Best<br> Sinclair<br> <br> --<br> Ubuntu-zw mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw</a><br> <font color="#888888">--<br> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.org.zw</a><br> <a href="http://zimbabwe.ubuntuforums.org" target="_blank">http://zimbabwe.ubuntuforums.org</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div> </div></div><br>--<br> Ubuntu-zw mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw</a><br> --<br> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.org.zw</a><br> <a href="http://zimbabwe.ubuntuforums.org" target="_blank">http://zimbabwe.ubuntuforums.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Jonathan Hopley <<a href="mailto:joni_hopley@hotmail.com">joni_hopley@hotmail.com</a>><br>To: ubuntu zimbabwe <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:12:35 +1100<br>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] joni-hopley expired from team<br> <div> Please I sent an email for me tobe resubscribed please may i be resubscribed to list<br><br>> To: <a href="mailto:joni_hopley@hotmail.com" target="_blank">joni_hopley@hotmail.com</a><br>> From: <a href="mailto:noreply@launchpad.net" target="_blank">noreply@launchpad.net</a><br> > Subject: joni-hopley expired from team<br>> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:21:00 +0000<br>> <br>> Hello jonathan21,<br>> <br>> Your membership in the Ubuntu Zimbabwe (zimbabwe-team) team has expired.<br>> <<a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Ezimbabwe-team" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~zimbabwe-team</a>><br> > <br>> Regards,<br>> The Launchpad team<br> </div> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Jeff Chivheya <<a href="mailto:jeffycee@gmail.com">jeffycee@gmail.com</a>><br>To: ubuntu-zw <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:58:24 +0200<br>Subject: [Ubuntu-ZW] How do i?<br>How do i get Ubuntu to recognise a 3G modem?The modem has built in Win<br> drivers and it just won't connect-the portion where you get to choose<br> mobile broadband devices is grayed out!<br> <br> --<br> Jeff Chivheya<br> +263913 962 299<br> Bulawayo<br> <a href="http://www.esintu.com" target="_blank">www.esintu.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.org.zw</a><br> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jeff.chivheya" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/jeff.chivheya</a><br> <br> <br> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "O. Sinclair" <<a href="mailto:o.sinclair@gmail.com">o.sinclair@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:14:45 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] How do i?<br>On 09/11/2010 17:58, Jeff Chivheya wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> How do i get Ubuntu to recognise a 3G modem?The modem has built in Win<br> drivers and it just won't connect-the portion where you get to choose<br> mobile broadband devices is grayed out!<br> <br> </blockquote> there is a number of things you can try:<br> 1. reasonably often Networkmanager recognises the modem and you can set up the connection using networkmanager<br> 2. if that does not work there is a "semi-gui" script called Sakis3g at <a href="http://www.sakis3g.org" target="_blank">www.sakis3g.org</a><br> 3. finally from command line wvdial works almost everything<br> <br> first of all: what provider (Africom, Powertel, Econet) and what modem?<br> <br> Best<br> Sinclair<br> <br> <br> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Raymond Swart <<a href="mailto:raymond@karigon.net">raymond@karigon.net</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:28:32 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] How do i?<br> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> On 09/11/2010 22:14, O. Sinclair wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>On 09/11/2010 17:58, Jeff Chivheya wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>How do i get Ubuntu to recognise a 3G modem?The modem has built in Win drivers and it just won't connect-the portion where you get to choose mobile broadband devices is grayed out! </pre> </blockquote> <pre>there is a number of things you can try: 1. reasonably often Networkmanager recognises the modem and you can set up the connection using networkmanager 2. if that does not work there is a "semi-gui" script called Sakis3g at <a href="http://www.sakis3g.org" target="_blank">www.sakis3g.org</a> 3. finally from command line wvdial works almost everything first of all: what provider (Africom, Powertel, Econet) and what modem? Best Sinclair </pre> </blockquote> <br> The Sakis3g script currently only works on GSM (Econet) networks not CDMA (Africom/Powertel). Sinclair would like to to get some notes on setting up Powertel on Ubuntu from you as i know you managed to get it working. I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and network manager doesn't pick it up, not sure what I'm missing here, although you being on Kubuntu might mean there are packages you have installed that I don't.<br> <br> <div>Many Thanks, <p> Raymond Swart<br> Karigon (Pvt) Ltd<br> <a href="http://www.karigon.net" target="_blank">www.karigon.net</a><br> Web Site Design - Linux Servers - Graphic Design - Support</p> <p> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.org.zw</a> Promoting Ubuntu within Zimbabwe</p> </div> <br> </div> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "O. Sinclair" <<a href="mailto:o.sinclair@gmail.com">o.sinclair@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:37:45 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] How do i?<br>On 09/11/2010 22:28, Raymond Swart wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> On 09/11/2010 22:14, O. Sinclair wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On 09/11/2010 17:58, Jeff Chivheya wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> How do i get Ubuntu to recognise a 3G modem?The modem has built in Win<br> drivers and it just won't connect-the portion where you get to choose<br> mobile broadband devices is grayed out!<br> <br> </blockquote> there is a number of things you can try:<br> 1. reasonably often Networkmanager recognises the modem and you can set<br> up the connection using networkmanager<br> 2. if that does not work there is a "semi-gui" script called Sakis3g at<br> <a href="http://www.sakis3g.org" target="_blank">www.sakis3g.org</a><br> 3. finally from command line wvdial works almost everything<br> <br> first of all: what provider (Africom, Powertel, Econet) and what modem?<br> <br> Best<br> Sinclair<br> <br> </blockquote> <br> The Sakis3g script currently only works on GSM (Econet) networks not<br> CDMA (Africom/Powertel). Sinclair would like to to get some notes on<br> setting up Powertel on Ubuntu from you as i know you managed to get it<br> working. I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and network manager doesn't<br> pick it up, not sure what I'm missing here, although you being on<br> Kubuntu might mean there are packages you have installed that I don't.<br> <br> Many Thanks,<br> <br> Raymond Swart<br> Karigon (Pvt) Ltd<br> <a href="http://www.karigon.net" target="_blank">www.karigon.net</a> <<a href="http://www.karigon.net" target="_blank">http://www.karigon.net</a>><br> Web Site Design - Linux Servers - Graphic Design - Support<br> <br> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.org.zw</a> <<a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.org.zw</a>> Promoting Ubuntu within<br> Zimbabwe<br> <br> <br> </blockquote> For Powertel I have only managed proper with wvdial. KNetworkmanager picks it up sometimes but sometimes not - at least in KNetworkmanager you can set up a CDMA connection and that works for me on the times the modem is picked up.<br> <br> However wvdial rarely fails so here goes:<br> install wvdial (duh) and open a command/terminal window<br> from command line run:<br> sudo wvdialconf<br> <br> it should find the modem. Then edit /etc/wvdial.conf to something like<br> below:<br> [Dialer Defaults]<br> Init1 = ATZ<br> Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0<br> Modem Type = Analog Modem<br> Baud = 460800<br> New PPPD = yes<br> Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 (in my case that is)<br> ISDN = 0<br> Phone = #777 (that is the number I got from Africom)<br> Password = what Africom gave you<br> Username = what Africom gave you<br> <br> then to connect run "sudo wvdial" from command line<br> to disconnect simply press ctrl+c once or twice<br> <br> good luck and time we put some sort of FAQ on this on the site?<br> <br> Sinclair<br> <br> <br> <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Raymond Swart <<a href="mailto:raymond@karigon.net">raymond@karigon.net</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:50:54 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] How do i?<br>On 09/11/2010 22:37, O. Sinclair wrote:<br> > On 09/11/2010 22:28, Raymond Swart wrote:<br> >> On 09/11/2010 22:14, O. Sinclair wrote:<br> >>> On 09/11/2010 17:58, Jeff Chivheya wrote:<br> >>>> How do i get Ubuntu to recognise a 3G modem?The modem has built in Win<br> >>>> drivers and it just won't connect-the portion where you get to choose<br> >>>> mobile broadband devices is grayed out!<br> >>>><br> >>> there is a number of things you can try:<br> >>> 1. reasonably often Networkmanager recognises the modem and you can set<br> >>> up the connection using networkmanager<br> >>> 2. if that does not work there is a "semi-gui" script called Sakis3g at<br> >>> <a href="http://www.sakis3g.org" target="_blank">www.sakis3g.org</a><br> >>> 3. finally from command line wvdial works almost everything<br> >>><br> >>> first of all: what provider (Africom, Powertel, Econet) and what modem?<br> >>><br> >>> Best<br> >>> Sinclair<br> >>><br> >> The Sakis3g script currently only works on GSM (Econet) networks not<br> >> CDMA (Africom/Powertel). Sinclair would like to to get some notes on<br> >> setting up Powertel on Ubuntu from you as i know you managed to get it<br> >> working. I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and network manager doesn't<br> >> pick it up, not sure what I'm missing here, although you being on<br> >> Kubuntu might mean there are packages you have installed that I don't.<br> >><br> >> Many Thanks,<br> >><br> >> Raymond Swart<br> >> Karigon (Pvt) Ltd<br> >> <a href="http://www.karigon.net" target="_blank">www.karigon.net</a> <<a href="http://www.karigon.net" target="_blank">http://www.karigon.net</a>><br> >> Web Site Design - Linux Servers - Graphic Design - Support<br> >><br> >> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.org.zw</a> <<a href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.org.zw</a>> Promoting Ubuntu within<br> >> Zimbabwe<br> >><br> >><br> > For Powertel I have only managed proper with wvdial. KNetworkmanager<br> > picks it up sometimes but sometimes not - at least in KNetworkmanager<br> > you can set up a CDMA connection and that works for me on the times the<br> > modem is picked up.<br> ><br> > However wvdial rarely fails so here goes:<br> > install wvdial (duh) and open a command/terminal window<br> > from command line run:<br> > sudo wvdialconf<br> ><br> <br> This is where I ran into issues because it was not detecting the modem,<br> I will try it on a fresh install and see if it is something that was<br> inherited from before 10.10?<br> <br> > it should find the modem. Then edit /etc/wvdial.conf to something like<br> > below:<br> > [Dialer Defaults]<br> > Init1 = ATZ<br> > Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0<br> > Modem Type = Analog Modem<br> > Baud = 460800<br> > New PPPD = yes<br> > Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 (in my case that is)<br> > ISDN = 0<br> > Phone = #777 (that is the number I got from Africom)<br> > Password = what Africom gave you<br> > Username = what Africom gave you<br> ><br> > then to connect run "sudo wvdial" from command line<br> > to disconnect simply press ctrl+c once or twice<br> ><br> > good luck and time we put some sort of FAQ on this on the site?<br> ><br> <br> I agree would be nice to have a wiki styled FAQ where members could go<br> and edit the pages, would definitely go a long way especially now that<br> almost every home type user and alot of companies are running off these<br> wireless dongles. Loco team any suggestions???<br> <br> > Sinclair<br> ><br> <br> <br> <br>--<br> Ubuntu-zw mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>Install the package usb-modeswitch. It switches modems which work as both a modem and a CD to their modem functionality. Network-Manager should then detect the modem.<br>