David_T
TSI, here I am
join:2006-09-01
Oakville, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
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1 edit | Modem Tools for Linux?
I'm currently running Ubuntu on my system, giving the 8.10 Intrepid Ibex beta shot.
I'm curious, are there any modem tools (ie. STMT, DMT) that have a Linux version available? I'd like to avoid using Wine.
I have a SpeedStream 516v6 btw.
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grafix
join:2006-03-11
Montreal, QC
2 edits | Theres always good old telnet. and I wonder if there aint some scripts that would fetch and format the modem stats real fancy like?
I'm not a clever script writer myself, and find most modem shell access to be very basic, not as immediately flexible as a bash shell, for example.
Instead of wine, if you have the horespower on you computer, you could always virtulaize a copy of windows for said purposes of running DMT & friends. I'll give wine a shot myself....in the case of DMT, its really just a telnet client in graphic mode, with some slicked up scripting engine I imagine..though I could be wrong ...hmm, Maybe I'll just spy on the wire between my windows box and the modem with tcpdump and see what flows out.
Certainly if there are some usable scripts for this purpose, I'm looking for them. If anyone has a clue about scripting for modem stats....please add you wisdom!
Thanks
g
Update found this:
»idefix.net/~koos/speedtouchgraph···wto.html
but theyre old as the hills....maybe reworkable... but not so usable on the current 516xx series, so it seems.
a project... |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
·TekSavvy Solutions..
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Hi,
I've been dreaming of a Linux Live CD where some TelNet/
HTTP probe with well tuned communication routines would
run a user-provided device-specific script for quite a while.
There's very little feed-back to find around here about the
related topics, i'm afraid. I'm sure a twenty-five years old
8088 4.77 MHz PC running 'MS-DOS v3.30' would be enough
to handle, at least, the TelNet part so it shouldn't be that
difficult to design a text-mode only Linux Live CD which we
can use on about any PC one could throw at it - but i yet
have to see that happen. Marginal needs, some may argue.
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24 | reply to grafix
Hi Grafix, thanks for the link.
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grafix
join:2006-03-11
Montreal, QC
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Hey check this out!
It's a version of DMT for *nix. Ill say this: It does build, but I get a floating point exception. Other things: It only generates graphs and is not an interactive programme like its windows version, but the later version at least has a daemon mode. I guess porting the whole interface into gtk or qt...would probably be a big bunch of work.
I did also try to run the windows version under wine but haven't had any positive results either. It generates an exception....like a linux ooops I guess...register dumps, and the like...
Have fun!
»74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=en&···FpyFXjXQ |
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Last Parade
One of the Brightest Stars
join:2002-10-07
Port Colborne, ON
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said by Bicephale  :Hi, I've been dreaming of a Linux Live CD where some TelNet/ HTTP probe with well tuned communication routines would run a user-provided device-specific script for quite a while. There's very little feed-back to find around here about the related topics, i'm afraid. I'm sure a twenty-five years old 8088 4.77 MHz PC running 'MS-DOS v3.30' would be enough to handle, at least, the TelNet part so it shouldn't be that difficult to design a text-mode only Linux Live CD which we can use on about any PC one could throw at it - but i yet have to see that happen. Marginal needs, some may argue. I'm not sure a machine of that vintage would be able to handle booting from a CD. |
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David_T
TSI, here I am
join:2006-09-01
Oakville, ON
·Cogeco Cable
·TekSavvy Solutions..
1 edit | reply to grafix
said by grafix :Hey check this out! It's a version of DMT for *nix. Ill say this: It does build, but I get a floating point exception. Other things: It only generates graphs and is not an interactive programme like its windows version, but the later version at least has a daemon mode. I guess porting the whole interface into gtk or qt...would probably be a big bunch of work. I did also try to run the windows version under wine but haven't had any positive results either. It generates an exception....like a linux ooops I guess...register dumps, and the like... Have fun! » 74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=en&···FpyFXjXQ Thanks for the link, unfortunately I can't get it to compile.
I keep getting "TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'tuple' objects" and then aap crashes. |
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grafix
join:2006-03-11
Montreal, QC
| I used the makefile like so: make, and that ran the toolchain, didnt bother with aap. and I built both versions this way, 106 and 178. But as I said the dont really work. 
YMMV.
You'll need the rrd libs and headers installed.
So try it with just make in the source directory.
Let me know here what happens! |
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grafix
join:2006-03-11
Montreal, QC | reply to David_T
FWIW I managed to build the latest version of wine and it will run DMT albiet for the root user only. |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
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Hi Grafix,
There are 2 Windows builds for 'DMT', one
is for 'Win-98', the other is for 'Win-XP'...
I didn't experience problems at 1st when i
used 'DMT' under 'WinE' for the Slax Linux
LiveCD. I recall, though, that when i came
back to it a few hours later 'DMT' was just
gone and, since it was in "Diagnosis" mode,
my long-term record vanished with it...
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grafix
join:2006-03-11
Montreal, QC | Gone? What I do see is that if I change desktops the programme seems to disappear, but a double click on the icon in the tray brings it back up. I use dropline gnome, rather than KDE. |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Hi again Grafix,
Yes, gone: i couldn't find it, even less bring it back!
The 'Davix v1.0.1' Linux LiveCD has the 'MRTG' and
'RRDTool' applications pre-installed - in addition to
'WinE', it appears. Perhaps i should try 'DMT' under
this environment to observe what happens, having
'MRTG'/'RRDTool' ready may come handy someday!
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