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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:17:58 am | by MichaelMcDonald | |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:04:27 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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Lock it with <code>sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf</code>
This will permanently lock your DNS-values. (to unlock, use chattr -i)
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+!! Connecting to Xtra with an external modem
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+When testing a 733MHz Compaq with 384MB RAM, running Ubuntu 8.10 (reasonably acceptable performance!), I ran into problems trying to get it to connect to Xtra via an external modem. For some reason, which I haven't worked out yet, both gnome-ppp and kppp refused to talk to the modem. wvdial worked fine, except the login always failed - wvdial responded to Xtra's 3rd prompt "Login/Network User:" by replying with the username instead of "PPP".
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+I succeeded by running pppconfig, and then changing the last few lines of the chat script in /etc/chatscripts as follows:-
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+<pre>
+# ispname
+ogin: your_username
+# isppassword
+ssword: your_password
+# postlogin
+User: PPP
+'' \d\c
+# end of pppconfig stuff
+</pre>
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+Commands pon and poff then connected/disconnected as required.
