[SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160

[Robert Rawlins - Think Blue]

Jordi,

Thanks for your help so far, I'm going to do some more testing on this
today. One thing I couldn't see with the PPPConfig method was somewhere to
place my APN address, which apparently is wap.o2.co.uk, does the PPP not
require this? Perhaps using a default address which is set in the adapter or
SIM? I couldn’t only find place for a username/password/number and nothing
more.

Your English is just fine! :-)

Thanks,

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Jordi Soucheiron [mailto:jsoucheiron at dexmatech.com] 
Sent: 20 May 2009 23:24
To: Gustin Johnson
Cc: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue; voyage-linux
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160

Hi Gustin,
Usually dynamic dns work fine. Here in Spain sometimes we have
problems with ICMP messages over 3g connections so I use curl or wget
to test the connection instead of pings (and to check if the
connection is still alive ;) ). You can also try to enable the debug
output of pppd and check if it prints something useful.

There are several ways to connect on boot. I usually make a startup
script in /etc/init.d and link it using update-rc.d. But it's up to
you, there are many other ways to solve this problem.
Excuse my english.

2009/5/20 Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca>:
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> Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
>> O.K. Jordi that sounds good! I have my supposed APN/Username/Password
here.
>>
>> I've configured pppconfig with my username, password and the telephone
>> number as *99#, does that sound correct?
>>
>> Then I run 'pon o2' which seems to go ok, I then get a new ppp device
listed
>> under 'ifconfig'. However, I'm unable to ping any external addresses such
as
>> www.google.co.uk I'm wondering if this is a DNS issue?. When configuring
>> pppconfig it asks if the DNS is static, dynamic or none, which of these
>> should I be choosing?
>>
> It depends on the ISP.
> You might to set the OpenDNS servers in the /etc/resolv.conf
> Their DNS servers are:
> 208.67.222.222
> 208.67.220.220
>
>> Also, how would you recommend I set this so that the connection is
>> established on boot? The idea being that these are remote systems out in
the
>> field and I need them auto-connect and ensure they stay connected.
>
> Can't help here, I have not used ppp in more than 10 years.
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