Hi,
Last Sunday I purchased a smartbro prepaid kit.
Though smart said it only works on Xandros, I found a message on a discussion
where the author said he
managed to get it to work on fedoracore 8.... so I decided to take the
chance.... and it paid off
Managed to get it to work on Slackware 12.1
used the ppp files options(etc/ppp/peers/gprs) and
pppscript(etc/ppp/peers/loadbro_dial) in the .deb package found on smart's
webpage.... used alien to convert it to .tgz then exploded the package....
Had to comment out some unsupported commands and set the baud rate to 460800
the fastest most
linux distros will allow. Xandros appears to be tweaked....
And had to borrow a windows based pc to activate the 3G sim in the modem(you
have to do this once for Mac & linux--- that includes Xandros), after which
ppp-on dialed up okay...
just had to set the contents of resolv.conf for the DNS (does not do it
automatically)
it's as fast as a telephone based DSL connection (thus up to x7 faster than
dial-up,using 3G/HSPDA) and portable
NB:
After plugging the modem :
if your distro loads the usb_storage module remove it.
then modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0001
then wait for the modem 2 change mode b4 dialing
Conflicts with HAL, coz the modem first appears as a usb storage( CD)
then changes to a serial
device later. so I disabled HAL-- and messagebus, which needs HAL so no
point in starting it.
Hope this is good news
please give Max Limpag of Sunstar Cebu the head's up if you know him --- and if
he's not monitoring this LUG hehehe thanks :)
Have fun!
-AKA Cagalli
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