ISP Modem Dialup

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ISP Modem Dialup

David Richards

2005-10-26 23:01:03 UTC

Greetings list people.
The list has been very quiet recently but I have just started looking at
my USR wlan and I am wondering if it could do the job of being a access
point with a dial on demand interface to a isp using an external modem.
Does anyone know if this is at all possible.? Waht I have in mind is
something like an Apple airport with built in modem. Is there anybody
there taht can help me? I have already got it converted to Linuxap V
20030831.16:21:01 with terminal and web interfaces.
n.b. would it be a simple matter to include a file manager , does
anybody know how to do this?
Regards,Dave.

Richard Heurtley

2005-10-27 16:23:46 UTC

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The serial port on the Eumitcomm WL11000 card is notoriously bad. It
glitches so much that it's practically useless at 9600bps, much less
higher speeds. I doubt very much that using it for a modem backup would
work, which is really too bad because otherwise it would be a much more
useful device.

Post by David Richards
Greetings list people.
The list has been very quiet recently but I have just started looking
at my USR wlan and I am wondering if it could do the job of being a
access point with a dial on demand interface to a isp using an
external modem. Does anyone know if this is at all possible.? Waht I
have in mind is something like an Apple airport with built in modem.
Is there anybody there taht can help me? I have already got it
converted to Linuxap V 20030831.16:21:01 with terminal and web
interfaces.
n.b. would it be a simple matter to include a file manager , does
anybody know how to do this?
Regards,Dave.
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Keith Smith

2005-11-25 04:15:18 UTC

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These boxes are way too limited for most stuff. 1MB Flash / 4MB Ram is
just too darn tight. I spent way too much time on these
bad boys before I went to Soekris. It is quite a bit more money, but
you get 64MB of RAM and a CF slot + you can shove a
200MW radio in it. The components are all industrial rated instead of
commercial. As far as adding a PPP type backup you can
pretty much forget it. As for a "File Manager", what would you be
managing? The files are sitting on a RO filesystem in flash
that is at 98% of capacity.

As for getting PPPD on there . . .
[***@tempe] /var/log<342>cat /usr/sbin/pppd | gzip > /tmp/pppd.gz
[***@tempe] /var/log<343>l /tmp/pppd.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 92630 Nov 24 21:07 /tmp/pppd.gz

Your going to have to trim ~100K (compressed!) off the image. Plus . . .

[***@tempe] /var/log<345>size /usr/sbin/pppd
text data bss dec hex filename
179523 12032 44496 236051 39a13 /usr/sbin/pppd

This bad boy is going to gobble up some serious RAM if you try and fire
it up.

You can take zipslack, and hack it up for a 128MB flash, or even strip
it down or split it up and make a
really nice setup with lots of tools way too easy, and put the whole
thing together for under $250 on
soekris.

I'm running a custom soekris setup, and I can't find enough I care about
to eat even a 64MB flash.

--Keith

Bruno Lopes F. Cabral

2005-11-28 11:47:30 UTC

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Google for actiontec dual pc modem. it has linux based
hackable firmware, two ethernets and a modem

Cheers
!3runo