I'm new to the forum and Puppy. I've dabbled on and off with other flavours of Linux, mostly RedHat over the last 10 years, but now I've found Puppy everything clicks! It's great to have a full-featured, useful and reliable OS that will run on abandoned computers. Cheers, guys!
I'm sharing this as I hope it will help someone else like me (or me if I forget ).
Getting online like this was a real make-or-break thing for me, as I live on a boat a mobile phone is the only way I can use the internet.
Experts, I'm sure I have done many things wrong/stupidly here. I'm just saying what I did, it appears to work for me, but please add any corrections or improvements, I want to learn so don't hold back!
First I needed to make puppy see the phone. I edited /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it loads these modules at startup:
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modprobe cdc_acm
modprobe ohci_hcd
modprobe ehci_hcd
modprobe uhci_hcd
modprobe usbserial
modprobe ftdio_sio
I then typed these into a terminal window to create the device:
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mknod /dev/ttyACM0 c 166 0
chmod go+w /dev/ttyACM0
cd /dev/
ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 /dev/modem
I edited /etc/wvdial.conf to read:
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[Dialer Defaults]
Modem=/dev/ttyACM0
Baud=115200
Username=wapuser
Password=user
Phone=*99#
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noauth
name wvdial
Hope this helps,
Chris
edited 01.05.08 - I was telling everyone to save wvdial.conf in the wrong place