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Hey Peter,

In your /etc/ppp/options add the following line:

usepeerdns

Also check that there is no "nopeerdns" line :)

Laterz !

peter.wilhelm said:
Tazz_Tux,

first of all thank you, that did get me quit e bit further:

linux-89sr:/etc # wvdial hsdpa
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99***1#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99***1#
CONNECT HSDPA 1.8
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Tue Sep 26 22:52:07 2006
--> pid of pppd: 16318
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: dem
--> pppd: dem
--> pppd: dem
--> pppd: dem
--> pppd: dem
--> local IP address 10.227.43.237
--> pppd: dem
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> pppd: dem
--> primary DNS address 139.7.30.125
--> pppd: dem
--> secondary DNS address 139.7.30.126
--> pppd: dem
--> Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful
--> Default route Ok.
--> warning, can't find address for `www.suse.de`
--> warning, address lookup does not work
--> Nameserver (DNS) failure, the connection may not work.
--> Connected... Press Ctrl-C to disconnect

the pcmai card also got bright blue, but still i can not get connected to the internet with my little firefox browser and had to stop the UMTS service before beeing able using my ethernet/dsl routing.

i checked for /dev/ttyUSB0 and could not found that entry in /dev, and tried to create with MAKEDEV, but that command is not recognized by my system (suse 10.1)

it feels like i am almost there, but i still need a little more help before i can enter the UMTS heaven :)

Peter
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hi Tazz_Tux,

thank you again :) i am connected now, but i have a few questions.

1) My little firefox using this connection tends to switch in offline mode from time to time when using Konqueror i stay connected, i have not the slightest glue why, can anyone help here?

2) Why do i need to run /etc/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x1400, before using /etc/wvdial hsdpa ?

3) My speed is very slow indicated with 6-20 KB / s in Konqueror at usual browsing and 114 KB / s using speed test software how to improve?

4) When trying to use /etc/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x1400, or /etc/wvdial hsdpa as normal user i get the system message file not found, how can i modify that i do not need to use this service as root?

:) i still have not reached UMTS heaven, it rather feels like the first flights of the wright brothers, someone please help...

Peter
 
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Hey Peter,

Ok - I will try and help as much as I can. Since I only know South African networks I might not be correct on some things.

1) Upgrade your firefox ? I use it all the time and havn't seen this problem

2) The standard USBSerial driver doesn't "accept" that card normally, so we force it :) You can add it into /etc/modules or something like that. If I have a gap I will add this to the howto

3) Ok - let me get this right - on a speed test, you get full speed, but on browsing you dont ? If I got that right, give the customer care line a call and start asking questions ! Bear in mind that HSDPA has a ramp up time - start a download (say 3-5 meg file) and see how the speed climbs

4) As far as I know, you can't. Both of them change the system, the first, inserts a module into the kernel, but you can do that at system startuop (/etc/init.d/local.start in the newer distros) since once a module is loaded, it's loaded. The second commands brings up a network link, for which you need root/superuser access. There is ways around that, but I don't bother with them. By the time I sit down to look at them, something else has caught my eye :D

Laterz !

peter.wilhelm said:
hi Tazz_Tux,

thank you again :) i am connected now, but i have a few questions.

1) My little firefox using this connection tends to switch in offline mode from time to time when using Konqueror i stay connected, i have not the slightest glue why, can anyone help here?

2) Why do i need to run /etc/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x1400, before using /etc/wvdial hsdpa ?

3) My speed is very slow indicated with 6-20 KB / s in Konqueror at usual browsing and 114 KB / s using speed test software how to improve?

4) When trying to use /etc/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x1400, or /etc/wvdial hsdpa as normal user i get the system message file not found, how can i modify that i do not need to use this service as root?

:) i still have not reached UMTS heaven, it rather feels like the first flights of the wright brothers, someone please help...

Peter
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Vodacom, HSDPA - disconnect?!

Please ignore this post, the sim was still expecting a pin (idiot me!)

--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99***1#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99***1#
CONNECT 1800000
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Thu Sep 28 12:41:00 2006
--> pid of pppd: 12544
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local IP address 10.53.185.123
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> primary DNS address 196.207.32.69
--> secondary DNS address 196.43.1.11
--> Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful
--> Default route Ok.
--> Nameserver (DNS) Ok.
--> Connected... Press Ctrl-C to disconnect


Everthing's working 100%

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Hi All,

Please help a newb out!

I'm running SuSE 10.1

copy of my /var/log/messages

** when i insert my Option Card **

Sep 28 12:08:22 henk kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
Sep 28 12:08:22 henk kernel: [1504] nozomi_card_init(): Init, cards_found: 1
Sep 28 12:08:22 henk kernel: [1390] nozomi_get_card_type(): Card type is: 2048
Sep 28 12:08:22 henk kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Sep 28 12:08:22 henk kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
Sep 28 12:08:23 henk kernel: Nozomi driver nozomi_tty<6>[836] nozomi_read_config_table(): Version of card: 3
Sep 28 12:08:23 henk kernel: [828] nozomi_read_config_table(): Initialization OK!

** and when i connect **

Sep 28 12:08:30 henk pppd[5895]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
Sep 28 12:08:30 henk pppd[5895]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Sep 28 12:08:31 henk wvdial[5897]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
Sep 28 12:08:31 henk wvdial[5897]: Initializing modem.
Sep 28 12:08:31 henk wvdial[5897]: Sending: ATZ
Sep 28 12:08:31 henk wvdial[5897]: ATZ
Sep 28 12:08:31 henk wvdial[5897]: OK
Sep 28 12:08:31 henk wvdial[5897]: Sending: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: OK
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: Sending: ATM1
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: ATM1
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: OK
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: Modem initialized.
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: Sending: ATDT*99***1#
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: Waiting for carrier.
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: ATDT*99***1#
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: CONNECT 1800000
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk wvdial[5897]: Carrier detected. Chatmode finished.
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk pppd[5895]: Serial connection established.
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk pppd[5895]: Renamed interface ppp0 to modem0
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk pppd[5895]: Using interface modem0
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk pppd[5895]: Connect: modem0 <--> /dev/noz0
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk kernel: ppp0 renamed to modem0
Sep 28 12:08:32 henk rename_netiface: oldname ppp0 does not exist
Sep 28 12:08:33 henk pppd[5895]: CHAP authentication succeeded
Sep 28 12:09:03 henk pppd[5895]: IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Sep 28 12:09:07 henk pppd[5895]: Connection terminated.
Sep 28 12:09:08 henk pppd[5895]: Modem hangup
Sep 28 12:09:08 henk pppd[5895]: Exit.


Please help :confused:







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hey Tazz_Tux,

thanks again for helping me :), at least the card is working now and i begin to adapt to it, because something else has caught my eye....

have a nice time in South Africa

Peter
 
Tazz_Tux said:
Did you compile the driver ?

Laterz !
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I tried, but ubuntu doesnt know "make" command. i did compile on suse, but i prefer ubuntu, so if i'm going to get this to work, I'd like to do it on ubuntu. do you think that this should all work as per your howto even though the card is in a pcmcia to pci bridge on my desktop pc? :confused:
 
Tazz:

I'm going to grab the logs tonight when i get home. will post tonight. then you can have a look at whats going on.

Thanks :)
 
Tazz:

Sorry, I might be jumping the gun here, but I have a slightly unrelated question. Once you've helped me get connected and I'm more familiar with how the whole system works, is there a way to make a "batch file" on the desktop that will connect the card and run some kind of monitoring software? And while we're at it, isnt there a gui version of wvdial (or something similar) that i could use to control the connection?

Much appreciated. :)
 
Howzit,

Install the following packages:

gcc
kernel-devel
automake
autoconf

And try again :)

sevenworth said:
I tried, but ubuntu doesnt know "make" command. i did compile on suse, but i prefer ubuntu, so if i'm going to get this to work, I'd like to do it on ubuntu. do you think that this should all work as per your howto even though the card is in a pcmcia to pci bridge on my desktop pc? :confused:
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We can - the script will still need your root password - there is ways around it with sudo, but I have no luck using it :p

As for the GUI - normally distro have gui's build around the network and ppp stuff, so have a look there. As for the monitoring, what are you looking for exactly ?

sevenworth said:
Tazz:

Sorry, I might be jumping the gun here, but I have a slightly unrelated question. Once you've helped me get connected and I'm more familiar with how the whole system works, is there a way to make a "batch file" on the desktop that will connect the card and run some kind of monitoring software? And while we're at it, isnt there a gui version of wvdial (or something similar) that i could use to control the connection?

Much appreciated. :)
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Tazz_Tux said:
We can - the script will still need your root password - there is ways around it with sudo, but I have no luck using it :p

As for the GUI - normally distro have gui's build around the network and ppp stuff, so have a look there. As for the monitoring, what are you looking for exactly ?
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Firstly, there is no root pwd in ubuntu. i can "sudo -i" in terminal then all commands are issued "as if" you were root, buy you cant actually login as root.... wonder why they did that....

Monitoring: like tx/rx lights, usage, etc... :o
 
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eeeerrrrrr - Ok - you learn something new everyday :)

usage - look at the front of this post, there is a script to do it. As for the lights, like I said, normally the distros run gnome in which case use gnome-network-monitor (name could be wrong) or gkrellm :)

Laterz !

sevenworth said:
Firstly, there is no root pwd in ubuntu. i can "sudo -i" in terminal then all commands are issued "as if" you were root, buy you cant actually login as root....

Monitoring: like tx/rx lights, usage, etc... :o
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Tazz_Tux said:
eeeerrrrrr - Ok - you learn something new everyday :)

usage - look at the front of this post, there is a script to do it. As for the lights, like I said, normally the distros run gnome in which case use gnome-network-monitor (name could be wrong) or gkrellm :)

Laterz !
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Great. thanks man. will post logs later tonight.

Cheers!:D
 
sevenworth said:
Firstly, there is no root pwd in ubuntu. i can "sudo -i" in terminal then all commands are issued "as if" you were root, buy you cant actually login as root.... wonder why they did that....
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That's one of the things I most dislike about Ubuntu... :sick: (<== hee, hee lame excuse to use the new smiley)

You can enable the root user though, if you want to ;)
Just do:
sudu passwd root
You'll be prompted for a password ... once you've entered it the root account is back in action ;)

You can even disable it again afterwards if you decide... just do:
sudu passwd -l root
 
redarrow said:
That's one of the things I most dislike about Ubuntu... :sick: (<== hee, hee lame excuse to use the new smiley)

You can enable the root user though, if you want to ;)
Just do:
sudu passwd root
You'll be prompted for a password ... once you've entered it the root account is back in action ;)

You can even disable it again afterwards if you decide... just do:
sudu passwd -l root
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Thanks dude, thats going to be helpful. :)

OK Tazz:

Here's the log from ubuntu:

Sep 28 22:19:13 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 4982 user 'graeme'
Sep 28 22:19:13 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Sep 28 22:19:13 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/graeme/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Sep 28 22:19:13 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Sep 28 22:19:13 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Sep 28 22:19:13 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Sep 28 22:19:15 Sevenworth kernel: [4294729.659000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
Sep 28 22:19:15 Sevenworth kernel: [4294729.659000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Sep 28 22:19:15 Sevenworth kernel: [4294729.659000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Sep 28 22:19:17 Sevenworth gconfd (graeme-4982): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/graeme/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0
Sep 28 22:23:59 Sevenworth kernel: [4295014.440000] pccard: card ejected from slot 0
Sep 28 22:24:05 Sevenworth kernel: [4295020.171000] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
Sep 28 22:24:19 Sevenworth exiting on signal 15
Sep 28 22:24:20 Sevenworth syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart.
Sep 28 22:35:33 Sevenworth kernel: [4295708.375000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
Sep 28 22:35:33 Sevenworth kernel: [4295708.375000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
Sep 28 22:35:33 Sevenworth kernel: [4295708.375000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
Sep 28 22:35:33 Sevenworth kernel: [4295708.375000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core

root@Sevenworth:~# modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0af0 product=0x5000
root@Sevenworth:~# find /dev/ | grep ttyUSB
root@Sevenworth:~#
 
Tazz_Tux said:
Yes - I saw on the post ;)

ls /dev/ | grep noz is what you looking for - no need for the modprobe command

Laterz !
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I'm just following your howto... i don't know where the card is located on the system. when i eject or insert the card, it just says "card ejected" or "card inserted" i need to find out where the device is so that i can set wvdial to dial out on the device...

I hope I'm going in the right direction with this.

thx.
 
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