On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:50:33PM -0500, Indulekha wrote:
> I live in a very remote rural area, so dialup is my only option.
> Someone else suggested wvdial, which works and is good, but I prefer
> to use pppconfig to create the connection, pon/poff to start/end it,
> and pppstatus so I can see how many curse words and which ones are
> appropriate when waiting for things to download.
>
> Indulekha
Moin,
I am living the same way in rural Germany.
With Lenny, using 'pppconfig', I am having no problems with dialup
connections, except:
After running 'pppconfig' to install a new dialup connection to a
provider, I need to enter the directory
/etc/ppp/peers/
and have to change the group of my new dialup entries to 'dip':
chown root:dip <provider>
--------------------------------
Unfortunately, I can't find a provider anymore, who provides a constant
dialup connection: They all switch their connection parameters regularly,
so that a cheap dialup connection suddenly turns into a altered connection
with costs up to 15 cents/min.
Therefore I wrote some shell scripts in order to protect myself from
monetary hassle relying on data given under
www.teltarif.de
As my shell scripts qualify as "private-alpha", I put just a few lines
here to give an overview of actual cheap German dialup connections:
#############################################################################
#! /bin/sh
# Get an overview of cheap dialup connections in Germany from www.teltarif.de
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# (Note: requires an already working internet access)
# (dialup connection online?)
if [ -f /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then
wget -q -O - www.teltarif.de/db/res-inet.html?zs=jetzt | \
html2text -nobs | tee /tmp/teltarif-all.txt
cat /tmp/teltarif.txt | cut -d\ -f2- > /tmp/teltarif.cut
recode lat1..UTF-8 /tmp/tel*
clear
head -n 100 /tmp/teltarif-all.txt | tail -n 36; echo
ls -l /tmp/teltarif-all.txt
else
echo
echo "No dialup connection online"
echo
fi
#############################################################################
Good Lucks, Germans!
(or you pays your bucks, Hermann)
Greetings, Wilko
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