The Eclipse SDK 4.0 had been released on July 28th, 2010 just two days ago. The goals for this release are to be the next generation platform for building eclipse-based tools and rich client desktop application. This new release makes it easier for developers to develop and assemble applications and tools based on the Eclipse platform.

This article will show you how to install Eclipse SDK 4.0 on Linux, in this I use Slackware 13.1.

First of all, I assume you already installed the Java Development Kit (JDK) in your system. If not you can follow my previous article on how to install JDK on Linux.

1. Download Eclipse SDK 4.0

Go to Eclipse Release Build: 4.0 download page. Select the Linux Platform, in this I use x86/GTK 2 Platform. Then click the (http) link in the download column, you will be redirected to a mirror site nearest to you.

2. Extract the file using tar tool

Once the file has been downloaded successfully, extract or untar using the tar tool as follow:

tar zxf eclipse-SDK-4.0-linux-gtk.tar.gz

3. Change to eclipse directory

After extracting the file, an eclipse directory should be created in your current working directory. Go to the eclipse directory.

cd eclipse

4. Run eclipse

Now it is the time to run the Eclipse SDK 4.0

./eclipse

That’s it. Below is the screenshot of Eclipse SDK 4.0 running on Linux Slackware 13.1

Eclipse SDK 4.0 Screenshot (click to enlarge)

I just downloaded the latest Zend Framework 1.10.6 to test creating web applications using Zend Framework. I have also already installed Netbeans 6.9 for writing Java and PHP codes. The operating system I use is Linux Slackware 13.1.

At the beginning, creating Zend projects are fine, meaning without encountered any warning/error messages. But after adding the Zend Framework to the Netbeans IDE, I could not create Zend web project. The error messages warned me that “PHP Warning:  include_once(NetBeansCommandsProvider.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/to/zend/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 146″

This is already reported and discussed in the Netbeans bugzilla. It seems to be zend’s bug. The .zf.ini file, located in your $HOME directory, generated by zend tools has a wrong configuration. If you check the content of the .zf.ini file, there is incorrect in ‘php.includepath’ which should be ‘php.include_path’.

To solve this, just open the .zf.ini file and change the ‘php.includepath’ to be ‘php.include_path’. That’s it. Now try to create a new project using zf.sh/zf.php in command line interface. The new project should be created without any errors.

$ php bin/zf.php create project testproject
Creating project at /path/to/zend/testproject
Note: This command created a web project, for more information setting up your VHOST, please see docs/README

Flock is a social web browser that pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them. The current latest stable version is v2.6.1.

This tutorial will show you how to install Flock 2.6.1 on Slackware 13.1.

Here are the steps:

1. Download the Flock Browser
Go to http://www.flock.com/ and enter your email address into the download text field.

2. Extract the file
Extract the file using ‘tar’ tool and move the folder to the safest location. I just moved it to $HOME directory and rename it as ‘flock-browser’.

$ tar jxf flock-2.6.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
$ mv flock /home/fuad/flock-browser

That’s it. You are ready to run the Flock browser.

3. Run the Flock browser (via command line)
To run the Flock broser via command line, simply run the ‘flock-browser’ located in flock folder installation.

$ /home/fuad/flock-browser/flock-browser

4. Create a Launcher in the Desktop
To make it easy, create a launcher of Flock in the Desktop so you do not need to run it manually via command line.

Flock Launcher

Below is the screenshot of Flock Browser running on Slackware 13.1

Flock Browser Screenshot (click to enlarge)

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Opera is claimed as the fastest web browser on earth even some benchmarks show that it is beaten by Google Chrome. It is OK. We will not talk about browser benchmarking here.

In this tutorial I want to show you how to install Opera Browser 10.60 on Linux (in this case I use Slackware 13.1).

Below are the steps:

1. Download source file

Go to Opera Download Website http://www.opera.com/browser/download/
Select “Slackware” as the distribution and choose the ‘tar.gz’ package format as pictured above.
Select the download location nearest to you. Then click ‘Download Opera’ button/link.

2. Extract the file and begin installation
After the file has been successfully downloaded, now extract the file and begin the installation.

$ tar zxf opera-10.60-6386.i386.linux.tar.bz2
$ cd opera-10.60-6386.i386.linux
$ sudo ./install

The installation wizard will appear as follow:

Click OK

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Click Yes to Continue.

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Select ‘system – Install globally’ then OK

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Leave it empty and select OK

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Opera browser has been installed successfully. Select OK.

You can run Opera by issuing the following command:

$ /usr/local/bin/opera

or click Opera from the main menu.

Here is the screenshot:

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Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10 had been officially released by Oracle for Solaris 10 (SPARC, x86), OEL 5 (x86), RHEL 5 (x86), SuSE 11 (x86) and will be available for OpenSolaris in the near future. You can find the release details here.

This tutorial will guide how to install it on Slackware 13.1 using the tarbal installer file.

Here are the step by step:

1. Download the Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10
Go to http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express/thankyou.jsp to download the file.
Slackware is not an RPM package format (though you can convert RPM file to TGZ using ‘rpm2tgz’ tool) I will use option 2 (the tarbal file) in this tutorial.

2. Untar and extract the file
Once you finish the download file, untar and extract the tarbal file.

$ tar jxf SolarisStudioExpress2010-06-lin-x86.tar.bz2

A folder named ‘solstudioex1006′ will be created in the current working directory.

3. Run the ‘sunstudio’ file
Definitely you are now ready to run the Solaris Studio Express. It is simply by running the ‘sunstudio’ file installed in ‘solstudioex1006/bin’ directory. Run the file then accept the licence agreement and you are done.

$ /home/fuad/Softwares/solstudioex1006/bin/sunstudio 
/bin/cp: target `1.73GHz/config/Modules/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-debugger-gdb.xml_hidden' is not a directory
/bin/cp: target `1.73GHz/config/Modules/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit.xml_hidden' is not a directory
/home/fuad/Softwares/solstudioex1006/bin/sunstudio: line 279: [: too many arguments

You can simply ignore the warning messages above.
Here are some screenshots of it.

Solaris Studio Express Licence Agreement (click to enlarge)

Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10 (click to enlarge)

Slackware 13.1 had been released on May 25th, 2010 that brings with it many major improvements, like KDE SC version 4.4.3, the 2.6.33.4 Linux kernel, a new toolchain, updated libraries, and major applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird.

This tutorial will show you on how to install Google Chrome Browser on Slackware 13.1.
Basically there are already plenty of tutorials about this on the net but this is the easiest way to install it.

Here are the step by step:

1. Download Google Chrome Slackbuild
Go to Google Chrome Slackbuild repository page
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/network/google-chrome/ to get the files.
Download the google-chrome.tar.gz and google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb (32bit) or google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb (64bit) depending on which arch you are using.

2. Extract the google-chrome.tar.gz file
Next step is to untar and extract the google-chrome.tar.gz.

tar zxf google-chrome.tar.gz

A folder named ‘google-chrome’ will be created in your current working directory.

3. Copy or move the google-chrome-xxx.deb file to the ‘google-chrome’ directory
The google chrome slackbuild script will try to find the google-chrome-xxx.deb file. If it is not found, the script will break telling you that there is not such file or directory.

cp google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb google-chrome

4. Building google chrome slackware package
Go to google-chrome directory. Make sure the ‘google-chrome.SlackBuild’ is executable.

cd google-chrome
chmod +x google-chrome.SlackBuild
sudo ./google-chrome.SlackBuild
....
[snip]
....
opt/google/chrome/resources/inspector/inspector.css
opt/google/chrome/resources/inspector/popover.css
opt/google/chrome/xdg-settings
opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
opt/google/chrome/chrome.pak
opt/google/chrome/product_logo_22.png
opt/google/chrome/chrome
opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so
install/
install/doinst.sh
install/slack-desc
 
Slackware package /tmp/google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz created.

5. Starting to install the Google Chrome package
Now it is the time to start installing the package.

sudo installpkg /tmp/google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz
Verifying package google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz.
Installing package google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# Google Chrome (Open Source Web Browser)
#
# Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with
# sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
#
Executing install script for google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz.
Package google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz installed.

If there are no errors the Google Chrome should be installed successfully.
Here is the screenshot of mine.

Google Chrome on Slackware 13.1 (click to enlarge)

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The Slackware Linux Project announced that they officially released Slackware 13.1. Another stable release of Slackware is finally ready to go. Slackware 13.1 is available in both 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 editions, and brings with it many major improvements, like KDE SC version 4.4.3, the 2.6.33.4 Linux kernel, a new toolchain, updated libraries, and major applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird.

If you are a Linux user and located in Windows Workgroups, sometime you want to access Windows machines to copy some files from them through network. In windows, you can simply open windows explorer and type \\hostname or \\ipaddress of the target that you want to access.
In Linux, you need to activate samba file system (smbfs) to be able to access or see windows workgroups. In Slackware Linux distro (I am using Slackware 13.0_64bit) the smbfs module is not loaded by default. So first thing you have to do is load the smbfs module.

To check the smbfs module is already loaded or not, run ‘lsmod’ to list the loaded modules.

lsmod |grep smbfs

We can see above that the smbfs module is not loaded yet. To load the module, use ‘modprobe smbfs’ command.

modprobe smbfs
lsmod |grep smb
smbfs                  67704  0

The smbfs module is now loaded with 67704 byte size and 0 application used it.
From now you are ready to access windows machines through network.

Since I am using KDE and XFCE for my window manager, the easiest way is using Konqueror (the default web browser, file manager and document viewer of KDE).
You should be able to use nautilus if you use Gnome.

Run Konqueror > Network Folders > Samba Shares.

Konqueror (click to enlarge)

Available Workgroups (click to enlarge)

You can see available Windows workgroups that you can access directly from Linux.

I use Slackware Linux as the main operating system. Today I wanna upgrade some softwares installed on my system like Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and etc. Currently the firefox version installed in my system is version 3.0.8. The latest version of firefox is 3.5 so I wanna upgrade it and other softwares too. To update/upgrade Slackware I use ‘slapt-get’, an apt-get like tool to upgrade software in debian families.

The ‘slapt-get -u’ for updating the list of available upgraded softwares is fine but while executing the ‘slapt-get –upgrade’ to upgrade the available softwares was failed with an error message “Failed to download: Incomplete download”. Retrying the same way three times still got the same result.

Here are how to fix this issue.
Basically this issue can be solved by reinstalling the slapt-get tool with the newest one.

So we have to remove the installaed slapt-get first.

$ sudo removepkg slapt-get
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/slapt-get

Then download the latest slapt-get tool here and install it.

$ sudo installpkg sources/slapt-get-0.10.1c-i386-1.tgz
Installing package slapt-get-0.10.1c-i386-1...
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
slapt-get: slapt-get (an apt-like front-end to Slackware's pkgtools)
slapt-get: slapt-get is an apt like system for Slackware package management.
slapt-get:
slapt-get:  * See /usr/doc/slapt-get-0.10.1c/ for complete documentation.
slapt-get:  * You will also want to customize /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc,
slapt-get:    using a local mirror.  www.slackware.com may be very busy.
slapt-get:  * Support:
slapt-get:    http://software.jaos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/slapt-get-user
slapt-get:  * Please translate
slapt-get:    http://software.jaos.org/BUILD/slapt-get/po/slapt-get.pot
slapt-get:    then send to slapt-get-devel@software.jaos.org
Executing install script for slapt-get-0.10.1c-i386-1...

Run the ‘slapt-get -u’ and ‘slapt-get –upgrade’ again.

$ sudo slapt-get --upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
The following packages have been EXCLUDED:
  udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apr apr-util bind cups curl cyrus-sasl dhcp fetchmail ghostscript gnutls
  libpng mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird ntp pidgin ruby samba subversion
  xpdf
19 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 93.7MB/93.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 10.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y
2/19 Get ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/ apr-util 1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.2 [136.0kB]...Done
3/19 Get ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/ bind 9.4.3_P3-i486-1_slack12.2 [1.9MB]...^C8%
bash-3.1$ sudo slapt-get --upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
The following packages have been EXCLUDED:
  udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apr apr-util bind cups curl cyrus-sasl dhcp fetchmail ghostscript gnutls
  libpng mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird ntp pidgin ruby samba subversion
  xpdf
19 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 93.2MB/93.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 10.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y

Type ‘y’ to continue to the upgrade process.
You should see that the upgrade is now running properly without error as before.

Huawei E220 USB Modem is a powerfull device to be used as a modem to access internet. Currently the max speed can reach 7.2 Mbps (much more than enough for me to browse webs and download some files from internet). The speed you get will depend on your network cellular operator, whether you get the GPRS, 3G or HSDPA networks.

This tutorial is to help you installing the device on Linux, especially on Slackware 12.2 running kernel 2.6.27.7, installing softwares, and doing some configurations so we can dial using the modem to access internet. If you use Centos 5.4 or Fedora 12, click here for Centos 5.4 or here for Fedora 12 to follow the tutorials.

Here are the softwares you must have to follow this tutorial:
- huaweiAktBbo-i386.out. This tool is used to switch Huawei E220 to the correct mode for the serial ports.
You can download here
- wvstream (requirement for wvdial)
- wvdial (a tool for dialling the modem to your internet provider). You can download both wvstream and wvdial here.

I assume you already have pppd, gcc, and gnu make installed in your Linux system. If not, install them first!
To make it easier, create a directory /home/yours/download/huawei and store all the files above in it.

Lets go to the installations.
Firstly if you plug the modem in to the usb ports, the system will detect it automatically. Here are the logs on my
system after plugging in the modem to a usb port.

Jul 24 00:45:28 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=1003
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: Manufacturer: HUAWEI Technologies
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: option 3-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: option 3-1:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usb 3-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver option
Jul 24 00:45:29 slackier kernel: option: USB Driver for GSM modems: v0.7.2
Jul 24 00:45:34 slackier kernel: scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass Storage     2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jul 24 00:45:34 slackier kernel: sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5

You can see above that the device is detected as a ‘Mass Storage’ and we will switch it to be the correct mode for

serials port. That’s why we need the ‘huaweiAktBbo-i386.out’ tool.

Change to the directory /home/yours/download/huawei. Make it executable and run it.

$ chmod +x huaweiAktBbo-i386.out
$ sudo ./huaweiAktBbo-i386.out
Hladam HUAWEI E220 a prepnem na modem - bbo 06
4 set feature request returned -1
Prepnute-OK, Mas ttyUSB0 ttyUSB1 (cez usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003)
pozri /proc/bus/usb/devices

If there is no error, the tool run properly and the modem has been successfully switched to the correct mode serial ports.

Then, install wvstream and wvdial respectively. Install the wvstream first because it is a requirement before
installing the wvdial.

$ tar zxf wvstreams-4.6.tar.gz
$ cd wvstreams-4.6
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install

If there is no error, the wvstream has been successfully installed in the system.
Now the next step is install the wvdial tool.

$ tar zxf wvdial-1.60.tar.gz
$ cd wvdial-1.60
$ make && sudo make install

If there is no error, the tool has been successfully installed in /usr/local/bin directory or it depends on where you installed it.

The library files of wvstream and wvdial are installed in /usr/local/lib directory and you need to add this directory to /etc/ld.so.conf file and then run ‘sudo ldconfig’ to update the new installed shared libraries.

The next step, we will generate wvdial.conf file and store it in /etc folder. To generate it, we use ‘wvdialconf’ tool.

Run the below command and you will get logs showing on your screen like below:

$ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
Editing \`/etc/wvdial.conf\'.
 
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
 
Modem Port Scan<*1>: S0   S1   S2   S3
WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port.
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 Z -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: Modem Identifier: ATI -- Manufacturer: huawei
ttyUSB0<*1>: Speed 9600: AT -- OK
ttyUSB0<*1>: Max speed is 9600; that should be safe.
ttyUSB0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK
WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port.
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 Z -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: Modem Identifier: ATI -- Manufacturer: huawei
ttyUSB1<*1>: Speed 9600: AT -- OK
ttyUSB1<*1>: Max speed is 9600; that should be safe.
ttyUSB1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK
 
Found a modem on /dev/ttyUSB0.
/etc/wvdial.conf: Can not open /etc/wvdial.conf for reading: No such file or directory
/etc/wvdial.conf: ...starting with blank configuration.
Modem configuration written to /etc/wvdial.conf.
ttyUSB0: Speed 9600; init \"ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0\"
ttyUSB1: Speed 9600; init \"ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0\"

You can see that new modem configuration was written to /etc/wvdial.conf. Lets take a look at that file..

[Dialer Defaults]
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
; Phone = 
ISDN = 0
; Username = 
Init1 = ATZ
; Password = 
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 9600

Here you need to edit the value of Phone, Username, and Password to match your account of your cellular operator or whatever your internet provider. In this case I use IndosatM2 in Indonesia and the Phone number is ‘*99#’. After editing, the config file should look like this

[Dialer Defaults]
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = *99#
ISDN = 0
Username = secret
Init1 = ATZ
Password = secrettoo
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 9600

All the configurations are complete and now it is the time to dial the modem using ‘wvdial’ tool/command. To see whats happen while dialling the modem, log it to a file e.g /var/log/wvdial.log

# wvdial > /var/log/wvdial.log 2>&1 
# tail -f /var/log/wvdial.log
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected.  Waiting for prompt.
--> Do not know what to do!  Starting pppd and hoping for the best.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Jul 24 01:17:26 2009
--> Pid of pppd: 9627
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> local  IP address 114.59.39.38
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> primary   DNS address 202.155.0.10
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]
--> secondary DNS address 202.155.0.15
--> pppd: ø½[07][08]À³[07][08]

Wow success. You can see I get the IP address and DNS address allocated dynamically from my cellular operator.

You have to manually  put those DNS addresses in /etc/resolv.conf file because the ‘wvdial’ will not write automatically for you.

Then try to ping or browse to internet.