On Fri, 09 Feb 2007, Koustubha Kale wrote:
Koustubha Kale wrote:
I have a Tata Indicom VDATA PCMCIA card for internet access when out of office. Is it possible to use this with Fedora core 6? Any pointers please.
I have used the Huawei EC321 data card on FC6.x86_64. Setting it up using wvdial was a breeze. If you want, I can provide you the wvdial settings that I used.
-- Regards Vivek J. Patankar
I got it working with wvdial. Also got the modprobe to do it automagically as described in the blog. Just one problem I have a default gateway since I use the laptop at office too. wvdial/pppd does not put in a default route for the new connection. I tried the defaultroute option in the /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial files but no avail. Can u tell me a tric by which I can have the defaultroute inserted when i connect with wvdial and my office route put back when i disconnect?
This is what I used to do with my laptop. This was Debian, around a year ago. Default route will use eth0 on satrtup.
# route del default
$ wvdial
This will do the job. The default route will again come up whe you reboot. Now if you want to connect using eth0 w/o rebooting ..
# route add -net default dev eth0
regards,
Sharukh.