On Dec 30, 2007 10:04 PM, Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sluggers, > > I've got a Telstra Next G card working under Linux Mint 4.0 (ubuntu > gutsy) and I'm looking to tidy up (read de-geekafy) the steps needed to > connect it. > > Firstly I need to load the usbserial.ko module which I do with; > > insmod > /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko > vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0001 > > Where should this go under Ubuntu? I found /etc/modprobe.d but my first > attempt to create a nextG file in there didn't work and I'm still > loading the module by hand.
It has to be loaded after the device is connected. I don't know if there's any way to load it without the device being present. I'm using a mac regularly now with NextG, if I was using Linux, I'd probably change my kppp icon to run a script that runs that line as well, as has been suggested. > Secondly, to connect I use Kppp to "dial" the connection. This works > fine except that in order to set the default route to the PPP0 interface > I need to be "root". I don't know why, but I don't need to be root. (Ubuntu 7.04). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
