Last night I set about making "operational" one that I had PCLinuxOS 2007 on a CD of a magazine (I have 4 partitions on a PC that I use to highlight, if no proof were needed, that it is incompetent in on GNU-Linux!) After ' installation (the one that I can do!) arose the problem of internet connection for downloading additional programs that surf the web.
The first problem that occurred is that my usual I DO NOT HAVE THE INTERNET AT HOME! (weird right? For a Linux enthusiast, but the challenge is not!) Then massively use my trusty mobile phone GPRS, not having the speed of lightning (the average speed is slightly higher than a traditional 56k modem!) often forces me to leave everything on all night 'the ambaradam "in order to update the distro I use, for example. a couple of weeks ago having to upgrade my Ubuntu 8.04 alpha4 I had to hold on for around 16 hours! But using linux 's reliability is guaranteed and everything went "smooth as the' oil ' (there was a smiley with the' wink ...!)
To my great disappointment the 2007 version of PCLOS Gnome does not have Bluetooth installed (!), and just to be honest did not do it wvdial gnome-ppp so useful to connect through a simple modem (in my case the phone) , so I had to stick my neck out a little 'genius ......
Having to download another distro with the necessary files I purposely left out the Bluetooth that would have required a lot of programs and libraries to install various dependencies including and I focused on the possibility of connecting via a cable to the phone. Then I looked around my messy desk to find something that did in this case was excellent because my Motorola L6 has an "attack" standard MicroUSB.
I thought that once you plug it wanted only a simple dmesg to see if the modem was recognized by the mobile distro e. ...... Bingooo! Using a simple USB cable
> MicroUSB (mine was supplied with a digital camera Olympus C4000) functionality is perfect!
the command dmesg showed me that the modem was connected to port / dev/ttyACM0 (then me strangely connected to him / dev/ttyACM1! Little harm if it is not the 'one' s the other!) I then foreseen Within a the downloaded gnome-ppp and wvdial (with a couple of libraries required) .
Once you have downloaded these programs (I used this website: rpm.pbone.net) , with the rpm command -Ivh 'nome_file.rpm I proceeded to install them.
In two minutes, after gnome-ppp properly configured with the parameters of the cellular modem (the famous / dev/ttyACM0) and with data from the "phone company" (phone number and initialization parameters) the internet connection was active and running!
As an additional "feature" with our cable fortune while we are connected we can also recharge your mobile phone!
