Re: Where and how to install D02HW in ConnectionManager?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 08:12 +0900, Jacobs Shannon wrote:
> Whoops. Sorry I got confused about the name of NetworkManager again.
> That's my problem with generic names that have synonyms... Easy to
> switch words.
> 
> My understanding is that the D02HW is not really a proper CDMA, but
> somehow this is required by the way eMobile has configured their
> network in Japan. I did initially attempt to use the #777 number,
> but that didn't work.
> 
> Now I am stuck on the connection sharing part. It seems that I must
> install and configure the dhcp-server now. I was hoping that
> NetworkManager would handle that automatically when I said I wanted
> to share the wired network side. The dhcp-server conf file is pretty
> hairy to mess with. I'm not even sure I copied the correct stub file
> into the correct directory... Can you (or anyone else) point me at a
> good URL for doing this with the current version of Ubuntu? I spent
> some time on it last night, but didn't make much progress. That
> included searching in the archives of this mailing list.

You should only need dnsmasq, and once that's installed, NetworkManager
will configure it correctly on-the-fly without needing any manual
intervention.  No config files should be required.

apt-get install dnsmasq   (or something like that)

should be all you need.

Dan

> > Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:28:54 -0500
> > From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
> > 
> > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 16:33 +0900, Jacobs Shannon wrote:
> > > Okay, here's the scoop. With the information contained in
> > the
> > > previously cited URL, I was able to make ConnectionManager
> > work.
> > > Again:
> > > 
> > > > http://d.hatena.ne.jp/munetoh/20081121
> > > 
> > > I'll be continuing with the next phase of my testing after I
> > move
> > > the machine to the other network, but I want to try to
> > describe what
> > > I did to get it working, and ask what I am supposed to do
> > now to
> > > help propagate the solution to other people who may be
> > having the
> > > same problem. (Also, I hope this comment will document
> > things when
> > > the next normal update zaps part of my current solution.)
> > > 
> > > First, I modified the 10-model.fdi file with the IS-707-A. I
> > did
> > > this manually with gedit, and in a later iteration I
> > commented out
> > > the two previously existing command sets for this device.
> > 
> > Interesting, so it's actually a CDMA part.  0.7.1 should
> > handle this a
> > lot better because it probes the card instead of using the
> > (often
> > incorrect) static mappings in 10-modem.fdi.
> > 
> > > Back in ConnectionManager, I was trying to use a modified
> > version of
> > > the old Mobile Broadband connection that I had created
> > earlier, but
> > > this didn't seem to work. Instead, I started messing around
> > with a
> > > new CDMA entry that had appeared. I gave it the dialing
> > string
> > > *99***1# and em as the user name. Somewhere around here it
> > was
> > > bouncing me around in the Gnome keyring manager, which I
> > thought I
> > > had disabled, but I used em as the password, and it bought
> > that on
> > > the second or third pass.
> > 
> > Try #777 as the number instead; that's the normal CDMA dialup
> > number.
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> 
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