Comments on: Using dialup with 11.1 if NetworkManager does not handle your device

By: Miles Maybee

Miles Maybee — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:47:00 +0000

hmm, first thing I did was to go NETWORKMANAGER=no. I use OpenDNS and specify DNS servers in Yast modem setup. /etc/resolv.conf is *not* updated on my system. Perhaps someone will find this useful.

By: Sidro

Sidro — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:39:51 +0000

Seting up the parameter in sysconfig is working great, even in Opensuse 11.2

Thank You!

By: Ivan Zlatev » openSUSE 11.1 – The Workarounds

Ivan Zlatev » openSUSE 11.1 – The Workarounds — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:48:23 +0000

[...] neat workaround is described here. VirtualBox [...]

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:53:35 +0000

Whups SUB NM for system-config-network. simpler than running scripts tho )

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:37:08 +0000

You could of course use bind a generic modem to the DUN address. ie for bluetooth

bind rfcomm x xxxxxxxxx xx

mine would be

bind rfcomm 0 xx:xx:xx:xx: 2 where 0 is the rfcomm channel usually 0 and 2 is the the dialup networking channel of your phone etc found using sdptool. Then create a generic network manager modem connection pointed to that address ie /dev/rfcomm0

Means you might need a script to initial it on startup, but hey linux is for just that!

Thanks

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By: 6gunLover

6gunLover — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:46:20 +0000

Mohamed’s summary work just fine with umtsmon installed and a huawei E180 usb modem.

By: Guenther

Guenther — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:06:04 +0000

Since my last most ill-tempered post one of the updates fixed the problem for me. The dial-up script now checks for DNS
–> primary DNS address 193.189.244.205
–> pppd: ط[06][08]��[06][08][08]�[06][08]
–> secondary DNS address 193.189.244.197
–> pppd: ط[06][08]��[06][08][08]�[06][08]
–> Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful
–> Default route Ok.
–> Nameserver (DNS) Ok.
–> Connected… Press Ctrl-C to disconnect
and writes /etc/resolv.conf without any changes by me to the netconfig setup.

By: Dutch

Dutch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:53:22 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I installed Linux for the first time 23 hours ago after getting rid of awful vista. I was full of hope for OpenSUSE and i knew that getting on the internet was my first priority since i’m in the last year of my degree and it’s all online. I was on a major downer until i found this page and the fix (i’m using a sony ericsson w890 as a modem and was starting to actually believe the guy at T-mobile who said that it wouldn’t work with Linux!) since it took me a while to find the whole wvdial thing. I’ve basically never ever used Linux before so today (when i got back from work) was a very steep learning curve for me even though i know windows systems inside out. I’m in the armed forces so mobile internet is very important for study and staying in touch. This page just turned me from the brink of reinstalling windows - something i really didn’t want to have to do.

I can see there is so much to learn with Linux but the fact i got the internet working with a mobile in a “mere” 6 hours gives me hope!

Right i’m off to chill out and try some of these games that came with OpenSUSE…

Thanks again and have a good weekend!

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:53:01 +0000

Perhaps summary yet:

OpenSUSE 11.1 and UMTSmon and Huawei 770 3G card didn’t work out of package. I tried Jari’s solution :

by replacing
NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=”auto”
with
NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=”ppp* NetworkManager”
in /etc/sysconfig/network/config.

and everything is fine, got DNS and routing correctly set.

By: Jari

Jari — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:47:34 +0000

Perhaps summary yet:

OpenSUSE 11.1 and UMTSmon and Vodafone GlobeTrotter 3G+ card didn’t work out of package for me.

Solution:

Replace
NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=”auto”
with
NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=”ppp* NetworkManager”
in /etc/sysconfig/network/config.