[ale] Verizon broadband wireless card for Linux

[Jim Lynch]

JK wrote:
> Jim Lynch wrote:
>
>   
>> jim at jim-laptop:~$ netstat -rn
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
>> 66.174.168.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
>> 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>> 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>>     
>
>
> Your default route is going out eth0, not ppp0. IIRC there
> is an option to pppd to make it install a PPP link as the
> default route when the link comes up, but I don't remember
> the details.
>
> You might try as a quick test:
>
>    ip route del default
>    ip route add default via 66.174.168.84 dev ppp0
>
> (I'm not in front of a Linux box at the moment, so I might
> not have that right.)  If this is the problem, you should
> be able to ping things out in the world after setting the
> default route to go out ppp0.  I bet you can ping 66.174.168.64
> even without changing the route.
>
> -- JK
>   
Not what I'd call speedy, but it seldom is on Windows.  That did it.  
Now the question is why did it work "out of the box" on Edgy but I've 
got to configure routes manually on Hardy?

Oh well, I'll keep a copy of this email on the laptop to remind me what 
I have to do.

Thanks!!!

Jim.