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vtailor

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Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 34

wvdial and ppp

Wvdial in the latest cooking works fine, except that (a) using ppp0 appears to ruin eth0 for use and (b) without kernel modules like ppp-async and ppp-deflate, ppp connections are useless. I set up wvdial for a Rockwell cdc-acm usb modem.

I checked tazpanel, and there was no mention of the ppp kernel modules anywhere, probably an oversight.

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: wvdial and ppp

Erm, I use Gnome ppp (which is a front-end for wvdial) with said usb drivers for my Nokia N70 and it works fine for me. I do recommend loading the modprobe module named 'option' after 'cdc_acm' to get proper pppd connections and speed.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: wvdial and ppp

(a) using ppp0 appears to ruin eth0 for use

Could be a kernel route issue or because /etc/init.d/network.sh is limited to one network adapter.

Slitaz ICS Tutorial: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/internet-connection-sharing/page/2

Shows how to setup a second adapter.

(b) without kernel modules like ppp-async and ppp-deflate, ppp connections are useless.

Support for ppp-async and ppp-deflate is compiled into the kernel on stable and cooking.

tux@slitaz:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i -e ppp_async -e ppp_deflate

CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y

CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y