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2 StuartYeates 1 Woosh Wireless (formerly WalkerWireless) have licensed some of the frequency spectrum off the Government to offer cellphone-style always on, mobile BroadBand in NewZealand.
1 CraigBox 2
10 CriggieCriggie 3 They're just starting in [Auckland], [Hamilton], and [Christchurch] and their pricing is reasonable. Watch this space. Anyone on the service, please comment.
3 JohnMcPherson 4
4 CraigBox 5 ''Hah! I looked into getting WalkerWireless when I first arrived in Hamilton in 2000. They've been claiming that they will extend coverage to Hamilton in the near future for as long as I've been here. Don't hold your breath. -- JohnMcPherson''
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7 ''They do own 3G frequencies now, and are partnered with Vodafone, so they're a bit more than all talk and nothing but 802.11b -- CraigBox''
14 SamMcKoy 8
15 SamMcKoy 9 ''Good product, lousy tech service. The company I work for setup a data logging box in a supermarket in Auckland. It took several phone calls even to find out if what we wanted was possible and we had to explain everytime that while the company is in Hamilton, the box needing connection is in Auckland. When we realised their software did not support auto connecting on startup we had to contact their support again with their only solution being to by a external PPPoE router (~$150) not once did they suggest adding another network card and setup XP/Linux to do the PPPoE routing. $150 solution vs a $15 one that worked fine. -- SamMcKoy''
5 ChesterFacington 10
6 UserId 11 There have been [reports of high latency on woosh wireless|http://www.eadz.co.nz/blog/article/44/]. This makes it unsuitable for online games or anything that requires low latency, like voice over ip.
7 JohnMcPherson 12
13 In June 2004, Woosh were replaced for the 3 regions it had won the
14 tender for in the Project Probe broadband initiative when it became
15 obvious that they would be unable to fulfill the contract.
8 MattBrown 16
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11 TomHibbert 18 !! How to configure a Woosh Modem using the Ethernet cable under Linux
8 MattBrown 19
16 PeterBier 20 These modems speak PPPoE.
21
22 !The following instructions are for Debian Woody.
8 MattBrown 23
9 MattBrown 24 <verbatim>
25 apt-get install pppoe
26 </verbatim>
8 MattBrown 27
28 Edit /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, make sure you have the following lines
29 <verbatim>
30 user "foo@woosh.co.nz"
31 # if you're using an interface other than eth0 substitute it below
32 pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1452"
33 noipdefault
34 # Comment out if you already have the correct default route installed
35 defaultroute
36 hide-password
37 lcp-echo-interval 60
38 lcp-echo-failure 3
39 # Override any connect script that may have been set in /etc/ppp/options.
40 connect /bin/true
41 noauth
42 persist
43 demand
44 mtu 1492
45 </verbatim>
46
47 In /etc/ppp/chap-secrets you need a line like
48 <verbatim>
49 "foo@woosh.co.nz" * "foopassword"
50 </verbatim>
51
52 Then run
53 <verbatim>
54 pon dsl-provider
55 </verbatim>
56
57 And you should be away.
16 PeterBier 58
59 !The following instructions are for Ubuntu (Warty Warthog version).
60
61
62 Run the pppoeconf tool (either as root, or use sudo)
63
64 <verbatim>
65 pppoeconf
66 </verbatim>
67
68 If in doubt accept all the default options. Remember when asked for your username enter something of the form:
69
70 <verbatim>
71 foobar@woosh.co.nz
72 </verbatim>
73
74 pppoeconf will set up the file /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider and edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
75
76 If you make a mistake when selecting options there is no option to go back and correct the selection. To correct any errors first finish using pppoecof. Then remove the file /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider before running pppoeconf again.
77
78 Once pppoeconf has been run with the correct setup you can connect using
79 <verbatim>
80 pon dsl-provider
81 </verbatim>
82
83 To switch off use
84 <verbatim>
85 poff
86 </verbatim>
87
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89
8 MattBrown 90
11 TomHibbert 91 !! How to configure a Woosh modem using the USB cable under Linux
8 MattBrown 92
11 TomHibbert 93 For this to work you almost certainly need a recent 2.6 kernel with ipw either available as a module or compiled into the kernel. This works out of the box with Ubuntu Hoary, just plug it in and you will see in dmesg the ipw driver loaded. It'll allocate you a usb tty:
7 JohnMcPherson 94
11 TomHibbert 95 <verbatim>
96 Jun 16 10:34:49 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup
97 Jun 16 10:34:49 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
98 Jun 16 10:34:50 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
99 Jun 16 10:34:50 localhost kernel: ipwtty 2-3:1.0: IPWireless converter converter detected
100 Jun 16 10:34:50 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: IPWireless converter converter now attached to ttyUSB0
101 </verbatim>
102
103 Create a ppp peer for woosh, by creating the file /etc/ppp/peers/woosh:
104
105 <verbatim>
106 noipdefault
107 /dev/ttyUSB0
108 115200
109 defaultroute
110 usepeerdns
111 lcp-echo-interval 60
112 lcp-echo-failure 3
113 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/woosh"
114 noauth
115 persist
116 mtu 1400
117 user "username@woosh.co.nz"
118 maxfail 0
119 deflate 15
120 </verbatim>
121
122 Create the chat script /etc/chatscripts/woosh:
123 <verbatim>
124 TIMEOUT 30
125 ABORT "NO CARRIER"
126 ABORT "BUSY"
127 ECHO ON
128 SAY "Dialling w00sh...\n"
129 "" \rAT
130 "OK-+++\c-OK" ATH0
131 OK ATZ
132 OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"PPP","woosh.co.nz","username@woosh.co.nz,foobar",0,0
133 OK ATD*99#
134 SAY "Waiting up to 30 seconds for connection ... "
135 CONNECT ""
136 SAY "Connected..."
137 </verbatim>
138
139 Note the double handling of the username/password, both in the chat script and in chap. This is almost certainly unnescessary but seems to simulate the Windows ipw software configuring the modem. You can probably get away with putting garbage in the chat script.
140
141 Make an entry to chap-secrets as above with your username and pass.
142 <verbatim>
143 username@woosh.co.nz * pass *
144 </verbatim>
145 Then use pon to initiate the connection
146 <verbatim>
147 pon woosh
148 </verbatim>
149
12 TomHibbert 150 These notes came from the original author of ipw, [r0dent heavy industries|http://rodent.za.net/MyLinuxDrivers].
2 StuartYeates 151 ----
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