Raspberry Pi -> Internet via eMobile dongle

Anchises

I'm in a rented house temporarily. No landline.

I've got my XP PC attaching to the Internet using an eMobile dongle.
Works fine . Note: NOT a WiFi dongle. No WiFi access here.

I'm also using an eircom modem/router -just as a dhcp client, so that I can access my NAS.

Now how do I get my Raspberry Pi to access the Internet off the network ?
I attached it, by cable, to my home network modem/router, hoping it might share the internet access
provided by the eMobile dongle. No good

It looks like the eMobile dongle restricts access the the single PC to which it is attached.

I'd like to get the Raspbery Pi on the net .....

Is there any way to do this ?


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PrzemoF

I'd rather say your PC is not configured to share the internet access with router (and RPI). Have you tried to connect RPI using ethernet cable directly to your PC?

Khannie

You could set up a proxy on the box that the dongle is connected to then point the Pi at that.

Anchises

Thanks for suggestions

@ PrzemoF :

Have you tried to connect RPI using ethernet cable directly to your PC?

Not tried that. Only one Net connector on the PC and it is connected to the router. Maybe I could dis that temporarily.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'configured to share the internet access with router'
I can do eMobile -> Properties -> Advanced and have clicked 'Allow other network users to connect through this computers connection' . Is that the correct way ?

@Khannie

You could set up a proxy on the box that the dongle is connected to then point the Pi at that.

Now that - I do NOT know how to do

Tools ->Options ->Network Settings .... now where...

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PrzemoF

Yes, I think that's it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

I'm a linux user ,except at work :-(, so I'm not claiming to be 100% correct.

Have you tried to ping you laptop from RPI? Tell me if you need the details how to do it.

BTW you might try to test a linux livecd, just to test if the dongle really restricts number of users.

niallb

Could you change your router for one that has a USB socket and plug the Emobile dongle into that?
That will allow access from all devices attached to it.
You can actually make one of those from the Raspberry Pi itself using ipfire , but that kind of defeats the purpose!

Anchises

Have you tried to ping you laptop from RPI?

Yes - I've pinged from RPi and it hangs on the command which I take to mean it is getting no response.

-> ping 109.125.39.66

It repeats the command and stops.

When using ping I thought it would report 100% loss of packages, if no contact could be made to the IP ref.

ipconfig on XP gives the following - whether RPi is connected or not:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : p30neo

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-19-DB-F2-3D-19

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.8

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 31 October 2012 18:57:50

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 31 October 2012 19:57:50



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:



Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Network Card

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1E-10-1F-74-33



PPP adapter eMobile:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 109.125.39.66

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 109.125.39.66

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 212.129.64.220

212.129.64.221

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.11.12.13

Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.11.12.14

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

More research required

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Anchises

To PrzemoF:

BTW you might try to test a linux livecd, just to test if the dongle really restricts number of users.

Don't have a LIveCD here - all back at my own house - packed away. CAnnot download such a large file while using eMobile -takes too much of my credit of 7.5Gig allowance.

I had assumed the eMobile dongle was WINdows only. Would it function in Ubuntu ?

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Anchises

To Niallb:

Could you change your router for one that has a USB socket and plug the Emobile dongle into that?
That will allow access from all devices attached to it.

I could do that - I have a spare vodafone modem/router also.

The Rpi does have a WiFi dongle driver
But does it have an eMobile dongle driver ?

It is linux after all and surely Eircom would provide for linux users ?

Hmmm....

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PrzemoF

Anchises wrote: »

To PrzemoF:



Don't have a LIveCD here - all back at my own house - packed away. CAnnot download such a large file while using eMobile -takes too much of my credit of 7.5Gig allowance.

I had assumed the eMobile dongle was WINdows only. Would it function in Ubuntu ?

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Should work. I don't have any dongle to test it, but I some some people reporting that it works.

Try to ping laptop from RPI (or the other way) using local address like 192.168.1.8 - you need connection on local network.

Anchises

Ping just not doing it

Found what might be the solution.

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/07/3g-internet-on-raspberry-pi-success/


I'm going to try this

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