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I can't see how to automate this on Ubuntu but usually have a terminal with script running and use command
"ifconfig ppp0" at start and end of sessions which gives bytes transferred.
Pppd allows for custom scripts to be run at start and end of connection which would make a usage counter
trivial but none of content of /etc/ppp on my system looks relevant to vodafone connections.
David
Not something I have looked into before I must admit 😉 However I will investigate. I do find the NetworkManager applet very useful though, as it is so user friendly...
Not something I have looked into before I must admit 😉 However I will investigate. I do find the NetworkManager applet very useful though, as it is so user friendly...
I have problem that it occasionally refuses to connect since it believes it's already connected
(or that modem is already in use). I suspect the modem lock file hasn't been cleared but I've
not been able to find where it hides. I try to make sure I close the connection and disconnect
the dongle before hitting shutdown which seems to help avoid the problem. Other problem with
Network Manager is the default is/was to use fixed vodafone dns ips which is conventional and
correct except on planet vodafone where dns ips can change so I've had to set to use pppd
supplied dns servers rather than the default.
As far as I know both Network Manager and VMC are just wrappers for pppd and on NetBSD
I've just cribbed from settings used on Ubuntu and XP, and can use 'pppd call vodafone', which
gives as good a connection as on Ubuntu or XP. I don't have the extra ppp-up and ppp-down
scripts in place yet which are used to automate settin/resetting routing and dns.
I've never managed to get VMC working but again have found (though not yet tried) some scripted
methods that are supposed to work for send/receive of sms.
David
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Hey guys,
It's frustrating for us as we want you guys to have a great experience with the product... but the Linux side of things remains yet to be officially supported
.
This said, thanks to the guys at Betavine and all the clever work that they do, I don't think it'll be long before we pull Linux 'into the fold' of our official support.
I'm sure some of our community can help on this one - anyone want to contribute?
Daz
eForum Team
It's frustrating for us as we want you guys to have a great experience with the product... but the Linux side of things remains yet to be officially supported
.This said, thanks to the guys at Betavine and all the clever work that they do, I don't think it'll be long before we pull Linux 'into the fold' of our official support.
I'm sure some of our community can help on this one - anyone want to contribute?
Daz
eForum Team
Hey guys,
It's frustrating for us as we want you guys to have a great experience with the product... but the Linux side of things remains yet to be officially supported
This said, thanks to the guys at Betavine and all the clever work that they do, I don't think it'll be long before we pull Linux 'into the fold' of our official support.
I'm sure some of our community can help on this one - anyone want to contribute?
Daz
eForum Team
If the connection manager source code was to be made open source under a GNU licence, I'm sure the linux community would be more than happy to help in the development of it to port it across to linux... 
If the connection manager source code was to be made open source under a GNU licence, I'm sure the linux community would be more than happy to help in the development of it to port it across to linux...
You can/could download the sources of the beta3.
There are various licences in the tarball. BSD/GPL/LGPL/MIT
I couldn't get it to compile on NetBSD but didn't try too hard and gave up once I was reliably
connecting by manual pppd.
I think it is just python wrappers around pppd. Details are/were on the Betavine website.
David
