Sify Broadband on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope?

[schizo]

I have a dual boot winXP/ Ubuntu jaunty int86 machine.Apparently the official linux client needs libssl. Which I cannot get unless I connect to internet and do an "apt get". Wanted to use supersify java client, but jaunty does not have java pre-installed, and downloading a million java runtime libraries with dependancies from ubuntu package explorer website is a pain.Wanted to run BBClient.exe with wine, but it wont run saying it cant find some MFC42 DLLs Any suggestions?

 

[Sushubh]

sify sucks anyways, from what i remember... i could login through sify in windows. crash the client so that it does not log me out. then reboot the machine quickly and get into linux. i should still be logged in to sify. so the net should technically work fine. try it out?

 

[ankurbdotinfo]

I have a dual boot winXP/ Ubuntu jaunty int86 machine.

Apparently the official linux client needs libssl. Which I cannot get unless I connect to internet and do an \"apt get\".

Wanted to use supersify java client, but jaunty does not have java pre-installed, and downloading a million java runtime libraries with dependancies from ubuntu package explorer website is a pain.

Wanted to run BBClient.exe with wine, but it wont run saying it cant find some MFC42 DLLs

Any suggestions?

libssl is included by default in most OSes, it's just that the filename Sify client is looking for is not the one which is used by default. I'm assuming you've already installed the latest GUI client, then you're getting errors when trying to start it.

Open terminal. Do this:

cd /usr/libsudo ln -s libssl.so.4 libssl.so.0.9.8sudo ln -s libcrypto.so.4 libcrypto.so.0.9.8

After this, whenever you need to launch Sify client type sudo sifyconnect in terminal, client will be launched. It will automatically open a Firefox window after login. If you were already using Firefox, then this particular instance of FF won't have your bookmarks etc since it's a different profile as it's launched by sudo. Export beforhand then import these bookmarks into the instance spawned by Sify.

Lately, the the client stops pinging the heartbeat server and / or crashes. In that case, you're logged out with an invalid session error but it doesn't tell you that. At any time if you feel if you've been disconnected, try to load http://202.144.65.70:8090/servicelist.php - if it loads, then connection is alive. If it redirects to http://202.144.65.70:8090/downloaddialer.php then you've been disconnected. Click logout button in client, it will say invalid session. Close FF - choose to save your tabs if necessary. Then login again.

 

[schizo]

libssl is included by default in most OSes, it's just that the filename Sify client is looking for is not the one which is used by default. I'm assuming you've already installed the latest GUI client, then you're getting errors when trying to start it.

Open terminal. Do this:

cd /usr/libsudo ln -s libssl.so.4 libssl.so.0.9.8sudo ln -s libcrypto.so.4 libcrypto.so.0.9.8

After this, whenever you need to launch Sify client type sudo sifyconnect in terminal, client will be launched. It will automatically open a Firefox window after login. If you were already using Firefox, then this particular instance of FF won't have your bookmarks etc since it's a different profile as it's launched by sudo. Export beforhand then import these bookmarks into the instance spawned by Sify.

Lately, the the client stops pinging the heartbeat server and / or crashes. In that case, you're logged out with an invalid session error but it doesn't tell you that. At any time if you feel if you've been disconnected, try to load http://202.144.65.70:8090/servicelist.php - if it loads, then connection is alive. If it redirects to http://202.144.65.70:8090/downloaddialer.php then you've been disconnected. Click logout button in client, it will say invalid session. Close FF - choose to save your tabs if necessary. Then login again.


Thanks for the reply ankur..appreciate it..!

I guess you're right about it looking for a different filename, I downloaded libssl for my distro and tried to install it...it says that its already installed.

Anyway..I got it working last night. I downloaded sun's jdk binary for generic linux and installed it. Supersify just works wonderfully now. Im more comfortable with java so I prefer supersify to their native client. And supersify takes care of the invalid session by scheduled relogins. So it works great now. Also supersify sends the login request with OS signature as XP, so I didnt have to call up sify for enabling my linux kernel requests (Something I had to do with knoppix).

There is one nicely wierd things that happened that you guys might wanna know...I was updating my ubuntu with the Update manager and I have Sify's night and weekend package. That package disconnects at 8 o clock in the morning on weekdays, but the ubuntu update download today continued well past 8... and is still downloading as I write this. Although the browser is not retrieving pages. Im not sure why this is happening, but Im not complaining. Maybe Ill try to exploit this in future...

 

[Sushubh]

i think if you get the linux thing enabled, your sessions would no longer time out.

 

[schizo]

sify sucks

anyways, from what i remember... i could login through sify in windows.

crash the client so that it does not log me out.

then reboot the machine quickly and get into linux.

i should still be logged in to sify. so the net should technically work fine.

try it out?


thanks for the reply...

Yes I had read about this, but I would have to login to windows and log back into linux...I would have tried this if everything else had failed

 

[ankurbdotinfo]

Thanks for the heads-up that SuperSify still works. Hadn't considered it because I thought it stopped working after Sify changed its authentication process.

 

[Chinmay]

Does sify requires special kind of dialer like d one tata indicom usb modem requires??Can anyone tell me where to enter dial-up connection settings in ubuntu 9.04 for my 5net connection??Fivenet settings are->(For windows)Create a dial-up connection, say "Broadband"In Broadband,Username- chinmayPassword- 123456ISP name- FiveNetworkIn TCP/IP settings-In general Tab,Obtain IP address automaticallyUse the following DNS addresses-Primary 10.20.30.40Sec 10.20.30.16Please suggest me appropriate settings for ubuntu 9.04.(NOTE- 5net doesnt need special dialer in windows, dialup connection is made through windows interface that is by "Create a new conncetion" in 'Network Connections' Tab)Sify users can be of great help here-