[Server-devel] WvDial, Networking Issues in XS 0.6/0.7

[Tim Moody]

Martin is basically right that you are trying to use the internet to install 
the internet.  yum can't get the rpms because it has no internet access.

this might help figure out the actual rpms needed.  it lists some of the 
rpms required and one gotcha where the usb device can look like a thumb 
drive as well as a modem.

http://www.drupaler.co.uk/blog/installing-3g-usb-modems-linux/497

you don't say whose 3G device it is.  does it come with any drivers?

once you have the rpms identified, download them using a machine in a 
location that has internet connection, copy them onto a usb drive, and copy 
them onto the XS.  you can install them from the XS's drive.

If you have 3G access, you could try an Android phone and its local wifi 
hotspot.  Perhaps an XO could access the internet with that.

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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:27:25 -0400
> From: Shaun Pickford <shaun.pickford at gmail.com>
> To: olpc-haiti at lists.laptop.org, networking at lists.laptop.org,
> server-devel at lists.laptop.org
> Cc: Katie Doran <doran.katelyn at gmail.com>, Richard Souvenir
> <souvenir at uncc.edu>
> Subject: [Server-devel] WvDial, Networking Issues in XS 0.6/0.7
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> OLPC Community,
>
> Building off of the previous email I sent this morning, I want to present
> our situation to you very briefly and see if anyone can provide some
> guidance. We have a team in Haiti and some of us behind in the States. Our
> team in Haiti is coming back on Monday, and would really like to set up an
> XS and get it running and sharing an internet connection before they 
> leave.
> We have a FitPC with XS 0.7 and a 3G card that is used for internet
> connected via USB. The goal is to share that internet connection over a
> wireless network that XOs and other laptops can connect to. We've
> identified that we need wvdial to do this (unless someone can point us in
> the direction of something else that is on the XS 0.7 build, as it doesn't
> appear our internet is working). In the email I sent this morning, we
> mentioned that when we do a yum install for wvdial, we get an error that 
> it
> could not resolve the host. We've done pretty extensive searching on this,
> and it appears that the computer is simply not connecting to the internet
> (or at least that's what I think is the issue...I could be wrong). I set 
> up
> a Virtual Machine on my computer (I'm in the states) and installed XS 0.6
> on the VM. There were no connectivity issues with the internet, and when I
> ran a yum installer for wvdial, it performed an update to Fedora, then 
> told
> me that wvdial was already installed. I also setup a VM with XS 0.7
> (matching the environment of the FitPC in Haiti), and experienced the 
> exact
> same issues with no Internet connectivity and no ability to perform the 
> yum
> install of wvdial (same error message). I worked with the 0.7 VM for hours
> today (important to note I'm very new to Linux), but to no avail. It's
> interesting that the 0.6 VM had no issues whatsoever.
> Ultimately, my question is...is there something we're missing on 0.7 that
> we need to make everything work? We've gone through the setup and
> configuration outlined in the XS documentation, and all we're trying to do
> is a simple yum install of wvdial. Another question is, do we need wvdial
> for what we want to do? Or is there something else we can use? Should we
> just wipe the FitPC and install XS 0.6, based on the success we had with
> the Virtual Machine?
>
> Thanks in advance, and I appreciate timely repsonses by anyone, as the 
> team
> is coming back to the states on Monday.
> -- 
> Shaun Pickford
> shaun.pickford at gmail.com
> www.shaunpickford.com
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