A recent post by Quintin, and specifically a few comments regarding 3G made me think The primary advice to users looking to use 3G under Linux is to switch off the PIN on the SIM. Well, I’ve posted before on how to make 3G work … but Quintin’s post challenged me to take it to the next level…
Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category
3G, PINs, prompts and pppd
Monday, November 17th, 2008
Vodacom Responds
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I recently wrote a post regarding some rather trouble-some TCP RSTs. Well, it turns out that this was exactly what was required to get a reasonable response from Vodacom. Ok, well, not quite, but thankfully a not quite so strategic post on the mybroadband forums got someone at Vodacom to pick up on it and get me some reasonable answers.
Specifically, this is the response I got from Vodacom (my own comments are inlined):
Trouble-shooting TCP-RST problems
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008So I’ve been seeing real weirdness recently, ssh doesn’t normally do this:
jkroon@dijkstra ~ $ ssh root@othala.uls.co.za
Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer
jkroon@dijkstra ~ $
Working like this is NOT fun. In fact, it’s rather aggravating to say the least, around 5 to 10 % of my connections ends up like the above and up to about 80 % of them gets terminated within the first minute.
iBurst USB Modem and Linux
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Right, so I need to make it work. Right now. And as per usual half the instructions are so distro-specific it’s not even funny. So here is my attempt at providing some distro-neutral (influenced by my Gentoo background) and some pointers to the pitfalls…
