[FIXED] Multiple Terminals: Simultaneous Broadband Access

So I was trying to connect my Laptop and Desktop simultaneously to the Internet (Vuze was feeling left out on my machine), but the PPPoE won't let you authenticate (with same or different credentials) for other systems, when once connected to a system. It tells me that "the phone line is busy".

For the utter vellaness of my life... I studied the router manual but heck couldn't find the "next" button (.. :( See PDF) for the first two days [I thought probably my router was a different make and so couldn't follow the advanced settings instructions]. Finally I got the right manual (see PDF again) and got this sudden brain-wave to click on 'next' sheepishly (Mahn! they should tell us on the first page that there are going to be a total of 'n' pages for the complete configuration! X( ..... Sucks!!)

OK. So I kept tinkering, it wasn't a big deal anyway! :P Ah! My Week full of Sundays is about to get over... :( Does that mean.. no more Blogging?? :(

Well what I did was kinda simple... I just logged on the router setup as 'Admin' [opened 192.168.1.1... easy!!] and changed configurations. Reboot the router and wait for it to stabilize.

The Network is now password protected and no need for any PPPoE client :P anymore [it has been set to the PPPoE mode from Bridged Mode], it automatically connects.

[Heyy!! Does this mean that the post below has gone to a waste?? :O ... well Lets just call it a lesson learned.. (wink)]

I read the stuff and found out that this mode separates the Network and our systems providing an internal Firewall (and that's why its the recommended setting). You should totally do that.

Well find below the link using which you can very easily avoid war-driving issues... and get rid of the PPPoE mess...!! Save Time. Awesome!! now I can seamlessly connect to Internet thru my mobile device as well. Life looks good again.

Links:

View/download PDF

Source: Chennai BSNL

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Happy Blogging. Ciao

[SOLVED] BSNL Broadband over PPPoE in ACER Aspire 5738 :) on Ubuntu & Windows

Well for a few days I'm at home and this awesome 256Kbps (upto 2 Mbps) line was introduced to me. I even downloaded some "stuff" via Torrents, FTP. Awesome download speed (Whole 700Mb in 50mins. That's news!)!! And of course, there always is this strong urge to fix things!

Connecting from Windows XP via Wireless Anyway the drivers which came along with the ACER Utility/Resource disk couldn't get my wifi running (I knew the Card was okay as it worked just great in Ubuntu). I tried to download every possible driver matching the product name... Even those for Windows7 sometimes :P [all futile attempts]...
Atheros, RALink, Intel, ShirPeak... but nothing worked. I gave up (anyway.. almost all of my time Ubuntu is the sole OS I use, so that didn't bother me much).

Here at the starting the 'pppoeconf' [see the section below] wasn't working right. So had to switch on my Windows for a go. You know what...!!! I even forgot the password..!! [had to resort to FingerPrint Access :P Cool! Futuristic!].. anyway.. I changed it from the Administrator Account later.

I searched online for tools which can update my Drivers and find those for the 'unknown' ones. I found a few links... like:

DriverMax: Sucked Bigtime.. MaxTime. It wanted to force me to make an account before even using it and connect online. Bloody... I wanted a wifi driver :P You know, this has been a major paradox... "To Connect to the Internet you need to download a package from the Internet itself" [Linux users.. ever heard of ndiswrapper?]. It got uninstalled in seconds.

UKD: (probable short for UnKnownDevices) It's hosted at HalfDone.org. Elegent GUI did the trick and showed me some info about the NetworkController:

* Windows Description - Network Controller
* Hardware ID - VEN_8086&DEV_0083&SUBSYS_13058086&REV_00
* Device Category (Class) - Other devices
* Enumerator - PCI
* Detected Chip Vender - Intel Corporation
* Detected Chip Device -
* Detected Vender - Intel Corporation
* Detected Device -
* Device Status Flags - Detected, Unknown, Present, Not Phantom, Category Visable

I copy pasted the entire string in Google and on that page (it wasn't in EN btw) there were some links I sporadically clicked and reached a page which said its "Intel WiFi Link 1000 Driver 12.5.0.57 REV:A". Bingo!

DriverRobot: in the mean time I was working on this thing [Multi-Processing you know]. DriverRobot is FREE etc and after the full analysis wanted to go Online to show the possible updates available for the entire computer, but the best part: it allowed me to save the probe as an HTML page and when I opened it under a working Internet connection, it gave me the same Driver Name, Wireless_LAN_Intel_12.5.0.57 [192.4Mb download].













192.4Mb... Oh! Come on. I searched and downloaded the HP driver sp44954.exe (3.5Mb).
Works Great.

Rest is all a cakewalk. PPPoE id/password and you are thru.


Connecting from Ubuntu Via Wireless Ubuntu saves me of the trouble to download and install Driver. Wouldn't it be amazing if all the drivers come bundled along with the OS itself. Linux totally nails it... in this regard (ting).

Well just now I managed to configure Internet thru BSNL-Broadband in my Ubuntu as well. Connect to the access point, you get an IP-address using DHCP. Now you need to use the 'pppoeconf' program.

$ sudo pppoeconf
[sudo] password for user:

and it shows you a nice decent GUI. Go thru all the recommended settings and its done. And starts the connection instantly.
Just make sure you Press "NO" on this page.

You can check the IP etc using 'ifconfig'.

$ sudo ifconfig ppp0

and you see iNet addr, and P-t-P. All's good.
Later you can use 'pon dsl-provider' and 'poff' to toggle PPPoE status.
Good thing right? :)

Well the best part that now I can resume the downloads in Vuze.
Its 24's-Craze coming up!


Update:
Well I restarted the system only to find out that neither the DSL pppoeconf is working nor is my system connected to wifi. So I tinkered a bit a found out... the 'pppoeconf' makes an entry in the /etc/network/interfaces and then the NetworkManager stop managing the Wifi (it says: Device not managed). Either you can delete/comment all the lines from /etc/network/interfaces other than the two lines containing 'lo' [using 'gksu'].... *
Using gksu, you can open an application in root mode. (Think: su)
Press ALT+F2 >> Enter 'gksu gedit' >> open the file (interfaces) now and make changes.

Connect to the preferred accesspoint (after probably a restart) and 'pppoeconf' again.
But its not worth it.

* or.... you can yourself make a shell script to make that happen.

sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "ncryption"
dhclient wlan0
pon dsl-provider

:) instead of "ncryption", enter your essid (with/without the quotes).
you can later check 'sudo plog' to see if it says something like this:

local IP address
IP address
primary DNS address
secondary DNS address

Happy Tweaking. Ciao.

On Viewers Demand :)

Alright!! :P

So this is it.... ;)
kinda cheap yet A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

Beat that!! Acer Aspire 5738!

This is what I did on the V-Day

Ah! You thought I'd write about gifts etc!! Sucker!

1) Download just a few files from the big torrent.
Was extracting Scrubs episodes (downloaded earlier by a friend of mine thru torrents)... multi-volume RARs. But one volume was damaged... No Clue how! So, I used Transmission-BitTorrent Client for a change (generally I use Vuze); Had it eat the torrent (the only torrent I could find... was the complete Season4... and I couldn't find the Scrubs-S04E04.part01.rar ... so I started downloading the full episode). It showed me all the Directory structure and finally I could uncheck all the boxes... and then just download the missing Scrubs s04e04. :P Cool Right?


2) see the blog below..!! I used VirtualBox!! Minor change in the Network interface emulation (Make it Bridged. If its NAT already) when you use the Chromium OS.
;) It should work fine. Also the build you have access to...
[if you've not compiled it yourself from the 'git' builds] may have been hacked etc.. so you are advised not to use your Personal Gmail account for access. Create one now... and use.
:P Identity theft... buddy. Prevention is always better...! ;) You'd never want to install and use it as the only OS on your computer. TRUST ME!


3) Trying to figure out how to get OALD7 installed in my Ubuntu amd64. It has some 32 bit binaries GTK issues.
// issue definition begins:
On: $ sudo ./installation.sh

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on Linux / x86_64

// So i searched etc and finally... issue2
On: $ linux32 ./installation.sh

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ..........................
/home/nikunj/.setup8014: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load 'atal'
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1

Both of the times it cried about some support etc:
Please contact Loki Technical Support at support@lokigames.com.

// Issues end here. I hope I'll resolve them one day.

& hey of course I blog-D today! CAN we count that as 4?

PS: The posts are incomplete and gibberish on will. Thanks for reading. but y would you put yourself thru this pain! ??? M blabbering JLT. Ciao

Virtual Box in Action

So Currently I'm running:

> Google Chromium
> OpenSolaris amd64
> WindowsXP SP3 activated (not 64bit though)



Alright. Many thanks to Chip Mag for providing the Chromium VMDK for the Developer Build [20 Nov its saying].... I could actually try that. Nothing's new on the outside.. plain old Chrome Browser.. and buggy(on network connections etc) on the inside... but its meant to be fast, light and apt for users browsing internet. On the Virtual Machine it boots up real quick. Good thing. Will post back on Chromium soon.

Please notice in the images that there is the VirtualBox status bar at the bottom.
























The Light UI (see the menu options). You need to login thru your Gmail ID/Password.



OpenSolaris in Action:

























And our dear Grand-Pa :) 2001-2007. Windows XP






















(All Lies :P) -- JK. I recently downgraded from Windows7.
Acknowledgements: Torrentz.com


PS: A VirtualMachine lets you install the whole OS [as you can boot iso images and cds] and you can simply click and delete at whim. Clean Separation. No Conflicts or side-effects. No changes to actual partitions etc. Migration of the virtual disk is simple [just like I've used Chrominum]. Take snapshots of the system and rollback. It won't crash/freeze your host system :P... Go BETA testing!