Yota + Eeebuntu

Yesterday I bought myself a Yota-modem. Two factors influenced - the reduction in the price of the Samsung dongle from 4500r to 1990r, as well as the fact that a colleague brought a freshly purchased WiMAX laptop to work - and the boys tested the connection speed all day instead of work :) It turned out that the network was completely caught. As a result, I drove to the store on the way home and bought an iota modem. Black - the color of my 901st. It was not possible to immediately get “mad software” to work ( madwimax ) - therefore, I will describe below the sequence of actions that led me to success.

Everything described below was performed on a 20-gigabyte orthodox Linux Eee PC 901 with Eeebuntu 2.0 Base OS and Samsung SWC-u200 USB-modem.

0. First of all, I registered the purchased modem - fortunately, I had 701 with MSWinXP at hand. Perhaps the registration would have been successful from under Linux after installing the software - but just in case, I tried to minimize problems.

1. Install the libusb-1.0 library (a link to the required version of the library can be seen at code.google.com/p/madwimax/wiki/MadWimax ). After downloading the sources, we will compile:

$ ./configure
...
$ make
...
$ sudo make install

2. Download and install madwimax - the same ./configure - make - sudo make install.

3. Here, perhaps, one could run the compiled madwimax - but on my system the program gave an error:

$ sudo ./madwimax
./madwimax: error while loading shared libraries: libusb-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I had to ask for advice from experts.

4. We command

$ ls -al / usr / local / lib
total 376
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-19 23:51.
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2009-05-19 23:12 ..
drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 2009-04-29 23:09 eclipse
-rw-r - r-- 1 root root 193128 2009-05-19 23:51 libusb-1.0.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 954 2009-05-19 23:51 libusb-1.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-05-19 23:51 libusb-1.0.so -> libusb-1.0.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-05-19 23:51 libusb-1.0.so.0 -> libusb-1.0.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 153012 2009-05-19 23:51 libusb-1.0.so.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-05-19 23:51 pkgconfig
drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 2008-10-30 01:53 python2.5

And we see that the library has really set itself in the right place.

5. Run the command

ldd / usr / local / madwimax / sbin / madwimax
	linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7fc7000)
	libusb-1.0.so.0 => not found
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f83000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e24000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fad000)

That's the problem!

6. Let's look and edit the contents of the /etc/ld.so.conf file. For me it consisted of a single line:

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

On the advice of a specialist, I inserted another line before this line, the file began to look like this:

/ usr / local / lib
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

7. We will command

$ sudo ldconfig

and make sure that the library is visible to madwimax:

ldd / usr / local / madwimax / sbin / madwimax
	linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8008000)
	libusb-1.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.so.0 (0xb7fd0000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f83000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e24000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7e4f000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fad000)

Done!

8. Connect the modem, run madwimax:

$ sudo / usr / local / madwimax / sbin / madwimax

and use the network!

PS: there is an already-built installation package for madwimax under Ubuntu / Debian: peter.infosreda.com/en/2009/03/23/ubuntu-deb-madwimax-0_1_0 . I haven’t used it yet, so I can’t say anything about it.