Serious help needed here

LizardKing · 10 Mar 2008 at 19:10

Ive been lumbered with getting web n walk working on a FC4 machine running 2.6.12
http://www.pepper.com/products/pepper_pad3.html

After an awful long time i got it working to an extent were you just need to start wvdial after plugging the modem in.
Which is fine for myself, however this device is going to my MD, who wants it to work just by plugging the device in or similar ie plugging in and clicking a desktop icon to dial, on a normal machine this wouldn't be a problem, however on this god forsaken machine they have tried to make it as hard as possible to change the gui! Changing/updating the distro is out of the question due to the lack of driver support.
Anyone got any ideas on getting wvdial to detect the modem and dial?
Thanks!

.walls · 10 Mar 2008 at 23:58

Sorry mate - would love to help you; but I've never even heard of the thing!!

LizardKing · 11 Mar 2008 at 13:57

No worries, I'd never heard of it either till it was on my desk!

Got it to work if unreliably, now to sort out a DNS issue.....

Ethics · 12 Mar 2008 at 17:13

Could you not find/write a daemon that would monitor for the modem input and run wvdial (or a script to initiate it) when it finds it?

I know it's not that simple but that's how i'd look to doing it.

LizardKing · 13 Mar 2008 at 23:16

Ethics said:
Could you not find/write a daemon that would monitor for the modem input and run wvdial (or a script to initiate it) when it finds it?

I know it's not that simple but that's how i'd look to doing it.

Thats sort of currently what its doing now

It detects that particular USB device and starts wvdial.
However
Unfortunately wvdial is not updating the resolv.conf file with the t-mobile DNS info after a Wifi connection. :confused:

So i made a very simple script that deletes the file and copys a pre-written resolv.conf over when wvdial starts, its as follows

rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
cp /etc/resolv.conf.tmob /etc/resolv.conf

but for some reason when running the above, cp fails to find the resolv.conf.tmob file yet running the command manually works.
I've never written a script in linux so any ideas what is probably a very dim mistake?
Its all very mis mash but it should work if i can get it correct.
Thanks!

.walls · 13 Mar 2008 at 23:28

start the script with

Code:

#!/bin/bash

?

LizardKing · 14 Mar 2008 at 00:16

.walls said:
start the script with

Code:

#!/bin/bash

?

Thanks! thought it might be something like that but couldn't remember

Just found it strange that it would delete the file but fail on copying.
I will try it tomorrow.

LizardKing · 14 Mar 2008 at 16:57

Update - It now works

.walls · 15 Mar 2008 at 03:49

Nice one