Joris, Thanks for the detailed explanation. Your steps were very clear and easy to follow.
However, the script to start wvdial is not working for me. On bootup, almost at the very end before it gives me a login prompt, I get a message: /etc/init.d/rc: line 30: /etc/rc2.d/S20startwvdial: Permission Denied Any idea why it is doing this? Thanks, Tyson Varosyan Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.up-times.com 206-715-TECH (8324) UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime -----Original Message----- From: Joris Huizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:16 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I automate this? Tyson Varosyan wrote: > Could someone post a bit more of a step-by step for this? I am still very > new to Linux... > > Thanks, > > Tyson Varosyan > Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.up-times.com > 206-715-TECH (8324) > > UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime > > -----Original Message----- > From: kamaraju kusumanchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:51 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I automate this? > > Tyson Varosyan wrote: > > >>I want my box to run these 2 commands as it boots - before anyone even logs >>in. >> >>I want the computer to run >> >> modprobe usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 >> >> > > You can load modules with all the necessary options using modconf > program (apt-get installable). > > >>pause for about 3 seconds and then run >> >> wvdial verizon >> >> > > Not sure about the 3 seconds delay. Others might help you with this one. > But I guess once you load the usbserial module with modconf, you can > write a rcS.d script to run everytime the computer boots. > > hth > raju > To install modconf: apt-get install modconf (don't know whether this is installed by default, but a try won't hurt) then run: modconf You'll get a list of module types; search for something with kernel/drivers/usb - you'll probably get a number of those try to find something that also has 'serial' in it's name in that list (don't know if there will be something like that) otherwise, just go through the each of the usb items -- the goal is to find 'usbserial' once you find the usbserial - hit enter, and fill in the options (the same as you use with modprobe) hit enter again and it will tell you it's been setup; then you can exit (escape exit's one menu each time) to start the wvdial program, you can make a file like /etc/init.d/startwvdial just containing the command to execute (wvdial verizon) this is not executed directly after the loading of the module; however, if you want to ensure a delay of at least 3 seconds, you can do sleep 3 which should do exactly that (it is important that the file name is not the name of a debian package to ensure it will not get overwritten) then finaly, to make it start on runtime, you can do `update-rc.d -n startwvdial defaults`, the -n only tells you what the program would do -- if it just tells you it ads some links repeat without the -n : update-rc.d startwvdial defaults hope that helps Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
