Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

chris667 · Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 32

Hello-
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 Rolling Eyes

).
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:

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

thanks Chris

People giving answers in their first post are very welcome. Here is a link to a similar setup that I did for a nokia 6230i using a DKU2 lead to connect to vodafone on pay as you go.

I suspect the only module you really needed to load was cdc_acm as the basic usb subsystem normally gets loaded automatically. You may find that you don't needed the username and password though these might be needed by wvdial (I have never used it)

chris667 · Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 32

Cheers, Will! I'll try editing out the other modules for next time I start the computer, and let you know how I get on.
I did find your post, but only after I'd started messing about with Wvdial. I think your solution is more elegant.

Earwicker · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 39

They done it. It's right on the network setup menu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMNpI3RUwo8
http://www.osnews.com/story/19481
http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/03/17/synchronizing-with-windows-mobile-5-and-6-made-easy-in-mandriva-linux-2008-spring/
anybody up to the challenge for ipaq 500 voice messenger or any other g3 device under windows mobile?
Are we just gonna sit by and let Mandrive take the prize?
Where's Barry?

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 2045 Location: Maine, USA

I recently got a hookup with my razr this weekend in puppy216. Not much luck in puppy300 retro. Keeps giving me an error about unknown symbol in ppp_async (which I copied from 216). I also had to copy the cdc_acm.ko to 300 to talk with the phone and is does try to dial out but complains about the ppp daemon(sp?) dying..

chris667 · Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 32

Update! I've just spent an hour fiddling about with this on my new box running Puppy 4.00. It looks so much slicker, doesn't it?
I needed to use a different wvdial.conf, when I tried to use the original, Wvdial was complaining about not having a password. It works now, though.

tadatada · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Yuxi, YunNan, China

what should i do? when open /etc/rc.d/rc.local as text, the Geany open a untiled text for me.
then I do file---open----/etc----/rc.d----/rc.local, it still give me a untiled text.
how can I open rc.local file to modify or just visit it?

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

hi tadatada

I maybe off target here but would this help?

http://puppylinux.org/wiki/archives/old-wikka-wikki/everything-else/chineselanguages

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23120

http://www.puppylinux.org/community/blogs/sasaqqdan/chinese-puppylinux-forum

Aitch

kuapao · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 94

This thread was a great resource for me. In my case, I have a WM6 pda-phone that uses Internet Sharing.

Here's how I got it to work:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=234233#234233

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

just found - maybe someone could do a pet?

http://www.synce.org/moin/

Aitch Smile

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

seen this?

http://www.mobiface.com/upload/112l.png?PHPSESSID=8ea74b6512f2428b9f4ead228beeb6cf

or

http://www.mobiface.com/idea.php?id=1

maybe I'll get a mobile, when they get this working

Aitch Smile

CassaBella · Joined: 20 Oct 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Frankston,victoria

I'm connected to Telstra Bigpond using a LG TU550 mobile phone tethered on a USB cable (as a matter of fact, its on right now)

The 2 things I found when connecting to Bigpond were:
1. The connection doesn't want a username or password., so I had to manually remove these entries from the wvdial.conf file, as the GUI would let me do this.

2. PupDial initializes OK but you have to WAIT (and wait) for the the prompt to time out ,before pppd starts anyway. Then your away Very Happy

I don't know enough about configuring pppd to reduce/eliminate the timeout period, but what the hey. It works

gyro · Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 12:04 Post subject: my wvdial.conf

Hi,

I connect to Telstra's NextG network using a Samsung 411/412.

Here is my wvdial.conf:

joywright123 · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

I am using internet using mobile phones.I am using Go 2 mobile for use of internet because it features are good specally for internet.

I also connect internet using mobile phones through USB cabels.And also use GPRS for surfing because GPRS provide good functionality to specally check some data or information through internet.

gyro · Posted: Wed 14 Oct 2009, 10:24 Post subject: use pupdial

Hi,
I have had success using "pupdial" in pup-430, to dial the Internet using my usb connected 3G mobile phone, (actually Telstra's NextG in Australia).

Note: There is a minor bug in the "pupdial" as released in pup-430. But this has been solved and I understand that pup-431 contains the fixed version.
(Sorry but I haven't tested "pupdial" in pup-431, I did my testing with the fixed "pupdial" in pup-430.)

gyro