how to drive e1550 3G modem

[vincent2]

Bonjour!

Now I've got a 3G modem for internet,here's system info
 

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 12d1:140c Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

but under wicd it isn't shown there,what tools for dialing up to 3G network under vectorlinux 7 gold and 64bit?now i'm running kernel 3.2.9.
hope vector linux will be user friendly to 3G/4G modem internet very soon.

[Joncho]

wicd is for managing wifi or ethernet conections, to make your modem work you can configure chestnut-dialer.

[vincent2]

but how to configure chestnut dialer for 3G internet?where to set apn in chest nut?

[vincent2]

Bonjour!
After more thorough search on forum posts, Got the hints to dial to 3G network with chestnut dialer, so must log into as root, run chestnut-dialer under root(su), now every time log into root, run chestnutr dialer, 3G modem works fine under kernel 3.2.9 

[Joncho]

Hello Vincent, sorry i didn't reply before to help you configure chestnut-dialer, i've been kind of busy.

You don't need to login as root everytime you want to use chestnut dialer, there are other ways:


OPTION #1:

just edit (as root) the /usr/share/applications/chestnut-dialer.desktop, find the following line:

Code:

Exec=chestnut-dialer

and change it for this:

Code:

Exec=/bin/vsuper chestnut-dialer

Now everytime you login on a non-root account and try to run chestnut-dialer VL will ask for your root, password.


OPTION #2:

There are other approaches to solve this, for example: I have a laptop that i sometimes lend to my sisters or my nephews so edited the /etc/sudoers file and gave the users group permission to run chestnut-dialer as root without a root password:

run in a terminal (as root):

Code:

visudo

scroll down to the end of file and press i key to enter insert mode, then insert a new line:

Code:

%users  ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/chestnut-dialer

press ESC key to exit insert mode, then write :wq and press ENTER key to exit visudo writing the changes to the sudoers file.

Now just edit (as root) the /usr/share/applications/chestnut-dialer.desktop, find the following line:

Code:

Exec=chestnut-dialer

and change it for this:

Code:

Exec=sudo chestnut-dialer

Now every user on this machine can run chestnut-dialer as root without a root user password.

There are more ways to accomplish this, but this worked for me, now if someone knows if there is any risk in letting a user run chestnut-dialer with root privileges... please don't let me misadvice Vincent.

[hata_ph]

do chestnut-dialer need root access to work?

[Joncho]

do chestnut-dialer need root access to work?

Not exactly chestnut-dialer, it is something about non-admin users being unable to do a ppp connection or something like that, i remember someone recommended me to give full privileges to users on the modem ("/dev/modem") or over pppd or something like that, but i never was able to get it right, so it was easier for me to run chestnut-dialer as root (something that never had to do with wvdial or kppp) but i always needed to run chestnut-dialer as root on every PC i've installed VL since 5.8 version.