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The two SheevaPlug 'plug computers' I described in Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service - Automation arrived last week. The good news is that both are working fine and detected the 3G modem. The bad news is that the pre-installed Ubuntu 9.04 system does not include the required drivers. I will need to read up on how to add the drivers to the current kernel or install a different kernel package. Fortunately, there is an active PlugComputer Community to speed up my education.
Since the onboard flash is only 512MB, I picked up two 8GB SDHC Class 6 flash cards, moved the root file system and then followed the New Plugger How To setup instructions. So far, the only issue I had was getting sudo working (the executable did not have the right permissions). Running off the SDHC card gives me the flexibility of booting from the onboard flash if I need to recover from configuration issues or want make a backup of the SDHC card.
Once I get a kernel that supports the Rogers 3G modem, the next step is to install the Shorewall firewall, ObjectREXX to support the automation and OpenVPN to get around the VoIP problem. The second SheevaPlug will be used as a development machine and also as a file and backup server. Updates to follow.
All posts in this series:
- Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service - SheevaPlug
- Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service - Voice over IP
- Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service - A Lesson in Assumptions
- Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service - Automation
- Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service - Multi-PC Setup
- Rural Internet - Rogers Rocket Mobile Internet Service
