wireless broadband and JJ

[smeghead67]

Ok here we go. I have a AT&T "quicksilver" usb 3g modem that i want to connect to my JJ tower. Right now i have it in a dell laptop running xp and use internet connection sharing through a Ethernet cable to my wifi access point. and have my JJ box connected to it through eth0.

What i want is.

1. to connect the usb to the JJ box.
2. have it share the internet to my wifi access point through eth0. so my house has internet.

I have tried to connect it to my box. I found the hso drivers at pharscape.org and compiled them myself 0.9 vs 0.2 that ships with JJ. also the quicksilver requires the zerocdoff driver. That all went smoothly.

when i connect the modem to my usb hub, plasma resets itself, but comes right back up. annoying but livable.

NM gives a pop up box saying ttyhs0 is connected, but when i click on the nm icon it shows wireless broadband but says cable not connected.

I click on the nm icon to manage connections and add a connection in the WB section, and enter the phone number from the windows setup and the access network and save it.

there then is a plug in the bottom of the wireless broadband box and click it. the box tries to connect for 20 seconds and then says unable to connect.

I know wicd has no broadband support so its not an option.

does any one else connect to the inet this way?

Ted

[GreyGeek]

Re: wireless broadband and JJ

Did a little Googling and found this. It might help:

http://6head.blogspot.com/2008/12/now-to-3g-wireless-working.html

There may be useful info in the talkbacks, too.

Also,
http://www.pharscape.org/networkmana...an-modems.html

[smeghead67]

Re: wireless broadband and JJ

i got it the connection working with the hsoconnect application mentioned in the first link Thank you.

NOW how do i share this connection with the house? eth0 to wifi router?

Ted

[flarson]

Re: wireless broadband and JJ

What you want is to use iptables to enable NAT (Network Address Translation) so that your other computers us your linux box as their default gateway and packets recieved on eth0 get forwarded to your wireless and go out to the internet. This is also know as a packet filter and commonly referred to as a firewall. There are many tutorials on setting this up with various tools, mostly called firewalls.

That should give you a bunch of terms to Google that will get you what you want. You might want to run
sudo iptables -L
just to list the current tables even though they are empty. man iptables will give you some info about that command.

I expect that some number of people here will jump in with recommendations of GUI tools to make this job easier.

[GreyGeek]

Re: wireless broadband and JJ

i got it the connection working with the hsoconnect application mentioned in the first link Thank you.

NOW how do i share this connection with the house? eth0 to wifi router?

Ted

Maybe this URL will help:
http://www.debuntu.org/iptables-how-...net-connection

When I was doing this eight years ago it was easy, and the web was safer. The use of iptables and its rules may seem complicated, but that URL explains things pretty well.