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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:02:15
Message-Id: 49bf44f10907042102s4cd1cbf7ycf3ec56557f95f67@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network by Mark Shields
1 >> >> Is there another ppp client I can try besides wvdial?  One of the
2 >> >> dependecies of kppp won't emerge for me so I'm out of luck there.
3 >> >>
4 >> >> - Grant
5 >> >>
6 >> >
7 >> >
8 >> > One of the dependencies won't emerge?  Which one?
9 >> > That should be fixable.  Post the fail log for the emerge, and we'll
10 >> > work to
11 >> > get that resolved.
12 >> > --
13 >> > - Mark Shields
14 >>
15 >> GREAT SUCCESS!  I added the following to wvdial.conf and it works!  I
16 >> think this amounts to defining the APN.
17 >>
18 >> Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet"
19 >>
20 >> Thanks a lot for everyone's help.  I don't recommend the Serena Lodge
21 >> wireless internet connections in Tanzania.  Very expensive and most
22 >> ports don't work.  The Zain SIM works great now.
23 >>
24 >> Incidentally, I got antlr to emerge by temporarily enabling softmode
25 >> on my PAX-enabled kernel.
26 >>
27 >> - Grant
28 >>
29 >
30 > You're running a PAX'd kernel on a laptop workstation?  Really?
31
32 Yeah, no good? I asked on the gentoo-hardened list if that was a
33 worthwhile endeavor and they said it was. Maybe a bit overzealous?
34
35 - Grant