Topic: Satellite Cards for E-Smith

[Craig]

Anybody now of any satellite cards that run on E-Smith?

I have an urgent need to setup serveral E-Smith servers with SAT cards.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Craig

[Alan Lawrence]

Yes I am using the iHug sm200d satellite card in my system on the Australian iHug system, it works like a dream. There was  no problems in getting this to work.

Reagrds

alan

[Craig]

Great!

I will be using this on iHug in Australia as well.

Don't suppose that you have a bit of a HowTo by any chance.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Craig

[Alan Lawrence]

Yeah sure thing.
First, I installed and configured e-smith to use a perm dial-up modem connection.
Second, I copied the skymedia drivers to /skymedia
Then I edited '/etc/rc.local' and added the following to the end of this file '/skymedia/skymedia start'.
Do a reboot, check for a lock on the satellite '/skymedia/sm200dstats' and this should be you up and running.
If you need the drivers then send me an email and I will get them to you.

Regards.

Alan
Brainbench MVP

[Craig]

Alan

Thanks for the info.

I assume that you are using SME v5.0.
The /skymedia directory that you create is at the root of the filesystem?

Could you email me the drivers at cfarrier@gateway.net.au

Regards
Craig

[Kelvin]

Alan,

I am also interested in the drivers. Could you e-mail me a set as well ? Also, can you confirm if they are for ESSG 4.1.2 or SME 5 ( or both --> Yippee ! ).

Many Thanks.

Kelvin

[Alan Lawrence]

OK, I have had the satellite working both with 5.0 and 5.1beta.
I havn't tried 4.1.2, but if it is using the 2.2.x kernel then i don't see any reason why they won't work.
The bad news is I havn't got the card to work with the 2.4.x kernel, so anyone who has compiled them for 2.4.x then please let me know.
Craig & Kelvin the drivers are on there way.

regards

Alan
Brainbench MVP

[Craig]

Alan

Thanks for your help. I will be testing it all out tomorrow if I have any major probs i will email you.

Just a side note how long have you been running it on iHug?

Regards
Craig

[Kelvin]

Thanx Alan.

Will try when I get a chance.

Kelvin

[John Gray]

Hello Alan

I have recently started using Ihug Ultra and it would make things easier if I had the appropriate drivers for Version 5 of E-smith.

Would you be so kind as to send it to me?

Regards


John Gray

[John Gray]

Hello Again Alan

I do have some drivers for the 2.4.x kernel.  Would you like them?

Is your e-mail address help@serpants.com?

If so confirm and I'll send what I have to you.

Regards

John Gray

[brian]

Alan - any chance of your sm200d sat card drivers. I cant find any for 2.2.19
Regards
Brian

[Alan Lawrence]

If you have the drivers for 2.2.x then just edit the sm200dload.sh and change the line with 'insmod' to 'insmod -f', the -f just forces the module to be loaded.
Still no  luck with that brian then i will send you the drivers i am using.

regards

alan

[John Gray]

Yeah, same as for Brian!

Has anyone got the 2.2.19 drivers?

Alan's files were great, very easy to setup but wrong kernel.

[John Gray]

Hi again Alan . . .

Is editing the sm200dload.sh and changing the line with 'insmod' to 'insmod -f' what you need to do if you get the message that it is the wrong kernel?

This question sounds dumb but, sorry.

[Alan Lawrence]

Yes, that forces the module to be loaded even though it's a different kernel version.
But loading the drivers with /skymedia/skymedia start, should not display wrong kernel version, only running /skymedia/sm200dload.sh will do this.
To check if the module loaded ok do a 'lsmod' and find the line with sm200d_lnx and check that there is a 1 under the column 'Used'
If this is ok then check for a lock by doing a /skymedia/sm200dstats.

regards

alan

[John Gray]

OK!!  Success at last!

I installed version 4.1.2 of e-smith, did what you said using your drivers, Alan and it worked.

Now, how do I get it to start automatically when I start e-smith?

[John Gray]

Ok another problem.

sm200dstats shows that I am locked onto satellite.

Problem is that the internet connection doesn't seem to be using the satellite for download.

Alan mentioned something about "making your e-smith server a dedicated connection.
Well, I thought I did that but it didn't work.  Had no connection at all.

any suggestions?

Thanks

John

[Alan Lawrence]

OK, to get the satellite card drivers to load each time on boot add the following line to the end of '/etc/rc.local'
/skymedia/skymedia start

If you are downloading via the modem and NOT the satellite card then you will need to contact your ISP to make sure they have the routing in place.

I choose a dedicated server only cause thats the plan i am on with my isp.

regards

alan

[John Gray]

Hello Kevin

Did you get e-smith to work with Ihug Ultra?

If so, could you tell me how please?

Thanks

John

[Kelvin]

Hi John,

Unfortunately, the client who is using the SatNet card can't spare the system to try - so I have not got the chance to do so.

Kelvin

[Tom Veitch]

we have got it working with redhat 7.1

[John Gray]

Finally, success!  If I had read Alan's e-mail of 13.1.02 22:40, I would have been here months ago!
Did you write this and make it so easy, Alan?

Well done and thankyou E-smith and Alan.

PS.  Perhaps it would be good to post Alan's files and instructions on the site somewhere obvious.

John

[John Gray]

Finally, success!  If I had read Alan's e-mail of 13.1.02 22:40, I would have been here months ago!
Did you write this and make it so easy, Alan?

Well done and thankyou E-smith and Alan.

PS.  Perhaps it would be good to post Alan's files and instructions on the site somewhere obvious.

John

[NBk]

Drivers for these cards can be found on the telemann site: www.telemann.com
Instuctions are included.

The only problem that I seem to be suffering is that the connection will eventually degrade till it drops off. I'm not sure what this is, but I have it routing outgoing data via ISDN care of a few cisco routers and a tunnel, but of a routing nightmere trying to keep the assigned IP address intact... I will post any findings that may affect others, something tells me that forcing the 2.2.14 module isn't a good thing.

I found that creating a custom init script and linking to it in rc7.d is the better solution than using rc.local.

[Charlie Brady]

John Gray wrote:
>
> Finally, success!  If I had read Alan's e-mail of 13.1.02
> 22:40, I would have been here months ago!
> Did you write this and make it so easy, Alan?
>
> Well done and thankyou E-smith and Alan.
>
> PS.  Perhaps it would be good to post Alan's files and
> instructions on the site somewhere obvious.

We have an offer open to any developer or user - we will host your (free and open source software) and documentation. Just send along to documentation@e-smith.com or support@e-smith.com and we will set it up on e-smith.org.

Regards

Charlie

[Craig]

I have used Alans method on 7 SAT installs here in Australia connecting to iHug.
I have noticed no degredation of speed with either dialup modem or using DOV on ISDN.

If Alan is ok with it I don't mind writing up a small step by step guide and emailing the drivers and the document to E-Smith as suggested by Charlie.

Regards
Craig