On 06/10/10 15:12, doug wrote:
On 05/10/10 14:34, Marc Paré wrote:
Wouldn't this be the basis for including, say, a default
dongle
installation and a number of representative providers or
appropriate links?
Doug
This would make the job of the maintainer of these setups
quite a dedicated job. Providers come and go depending on
their financial success. When they are successful, the get
bought out. It would be best, in my opinion, as a FAQ or
Wiki item that would somehow be available to users at the
time of installation. A text file does not take a lot of
space on a disc.
Marc
Sounds reasonable, if the basic dongle installation was
included on the distro.
Doug
<Apologies - I've lost your post about the kernel not
recognising your dongle; and please forgive me if this is
already known to you>
My dongle wasn't recognised as such by the MDV 2009.1 kernel
either.
I had to install
lsusb
usb-storage
usbserial.
usb-modeswitch (from rpmfind.net)
wvdial
(kppp I had already installed).
As far as I know usb-modeswitch isn't dongle-specific.
However it was essential to attach the dongle BEFORE booting
up for the mode switch to take place, otherwise it was just
recognised as a simple memory stick.
Then
ls -alrt /dev/ttyUSB* showed
/dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/ttyUSB2 /dev/ttyUSB3
After that there were some configuration steps to carry out.
Doug
