Magnetic asked me to post this tutorial on PPCZone for those in similar conditions, all i did was to follow a tutorial online (in italian) meant for average PC users.

My configuration:

Peg2/G4
Nokia 6630
USB phone->PC cable
Ubuntu Breezy (5.10)

1) Create a file called "wvdial.conf" in /etc/ with a plain text editor (gedit did the job for me) with the following content:



In the Init2 string change "internet.wind" to the access point string of your mobile operator.

2) Remember to configure your mobile for GPRS/UMTS services (follow their instructions) and to activate the service itself.

3) If you have connected in the past to ADSL from your Pegasos using Linux remember to do following:

a) open the Terminal;

b) type "network-admin" and give your root password when asked;

c) disable ethernet connection or you won't be able to go online using your mobile as a modem;

4) open the Terminal and type:



Now you should be online :).

P.S.: I did it using a tutorial this summer, i'm not sure I've written everything, your mileage may vary, comments and corrections are welcome!

Very interesting.
I could add this somewhere in the Pegasos book...

c64 days

Thanks for posting this. Its a very cool article. Too bad more people didnt share info about interesting things they are doing with Pegasos. There are guys out there doing some pretty amazing things. For example, when I was a dealer I sold 2 peg1s to a company called "Flying Robots" and they were using Peg1s to control their robots (they were using amigas with custom programs apparently, and the peg / mos was a step up)

magnetic

I edited your post to make it look neater, hope you don't mind :)

Thanks Neko, now it looks better! I see a [/list] tag closing
my starting post, maybe it's some artifact from your editing?

Hi c64days,

It has now been fixed. This will be a very good thing to do with the EFIKA. Thank you for the effort and documentation! You are a Power Poster! 8)

R&B :)

Thanks! I'm honoured by this award :D , there are some other interesting and/or challenging subjects that are worth a tutorial, like browser-wise Java support (Sun seems to forget that Linux isn't X86 only), i've seen a few posts around about it but a proper tutorial would be more than welcome.

Hi again c64days, have you registered for an EFIKA? If not, you will have your chance one more time (we are going to open it back up for a couple of days next week!). Will you register to do this and document it thoroughly? If so, we will send you an EFIKA this month. Thanks again for your great post.

R&B :)

Let's target the weekend for this reopening :)

OK, we need to make a plan on this and start promoting it tomorrow.

R&B :)

I'll be glad to join in (my time is very limited though)
and look forward for the reopening of Efika developer program.