[GNUz] thanks guys

[Rik Tindall]

Nick Rout wrote:
>>>>towards wifi setup for the Sydenham Hall
>>>
>>>How did you go getting voyage to use dialup as the wired leg?
>>
>>Still working on it, but all the ppp stuff is there. Tomorrow I'll get 
>>on the ADSL link again, and apt-get install wvdial. I assume that will 
>>make life easier.
> 
> actually the standard debian pppconfig pon poff combination should
> work. 

Good tip, thanks Nick. I had been running pon & editing 'provider' 
default file, but still get a 'fault' exit. Neither pppconfig nor wvdial 
detect or run the modem yet, while it's listed as ttyS1 IRQ3 at startup 
- I assume that means the pcmcia/cardbus initialisation process was 
complete prior to serial port id. That'd be lsmod to check? Am copying 
modem initialisation strings across from other O/S dialers as we speak.

Saw your inquiry on Voyage mailing list. The important post there, i 
reckon - while we await reply - is: 
http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2006-May/000860.html
Good wifi support is becoming standard, and note the covergence with 
Ubuntu (2.6.16/17). My recent days have gone into finishing the FreeBSD 
install that dodgy disks started, using sysinstall ftp & pkg_add. Wi0 is 
looking healthy there too, though Gnome-X hasn't quite run yet.

One Q: have been looking through Voyage online docs & /filetree, but 
haven't spotted the source files yet? They may be needed.

> You also need to configure it so that on successful ppp
> connection it runs the nat script:
> 
> nat.sh wlan0 ppp0 "10.1.10.0/24"
> 
> depending on your devices and wireless network range of course.

Ok, that'll be part 2.

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