Re: [ilugd] MTS MBlaze woes

2010-07-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:20:07 +0530
Andrew Lynn lynn.and...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
 I do not have the device you are using, but had similar problems
 with my MTNL 3G usb data card. Switching from storage device to
 modem can be done with the usb_modeswitch package. This is
 automated, and updating to 1.12 and above solved the problem for
 me.
[...]

Not using MTS, nor Ubuntu 10.04 (still on 9.04), but will echo
Andrew's recommendation of usb-modeswitch. This should exist as a
package for 10.04, but I had to manually build it for 9.04, using
downloads from here: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

Regards,
Gora

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[ilugd] MTS MBlaze woes

2010-07-21 Thread Sahil Dave
Hi all

I bought a MTS MBlaze connection recently.The good thing i found about the
ZTE USB modem that came along, is that it has got a dedicated user-guide for
linux based OSes.
It works out of the box on 32-bit distros. But i upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04
(64-bit) and now i got to configure wvdial for it.

The user-guide gives all the parameters needed in wvdial.conf, but somehow
the modem still doesn't work. This ZTE device also acts as a mass storage
device.
My OS is detecting it only as a storage device, and not as a modem, so no
/dev/ttyUSBx is found.

Anyone using MBlaze without any hassles or knows a workaround?

-- 
Sahil Dave
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Re: [ilugd] MTS MBlaze woes

2010-07-21 Thread Andrew Lynn
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Sahil Dave sahil.dav...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all

 I bought a MTS MBlaze connection recently.The good thing i found about the
 ZTE USB modem that came along, is that it has got a dedicated user-guide
 for
 linux based OSes.
 It works out of the box on 32-bit distros. But i upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04
 (64-bit) and now i got to configure wvdial for it.

 The user-guide gives all the parameters needed in wvdial.conf, but somehow
 the modem still doesn't work. This ZTE device also acts as a mass storage
 device.
 My OS is detecting it only as a storage device, and not as a modem, so no
 /dev/ttyUSBx is found.

 Anyone using MBlaze without any hassles or knows a workaround?


snip

I do not have the device you are using, but had similar problems with my
MTNL 3G usb data card. Switching from storage device to modem can be done
with the usb_modeswitch package. This is automated, and updating to 1.12 and
above solved the problem for me. The great thing is that it integrates
easily with NetworkManager, allowing one to specify different APN's.

Historical note: On both a fresh install of Fedora 13 and on Ubuntu 10.04,
the version does not work automatically, requiring manual settings,
tweeking, and multiple restarts. During those days of frustration, what did
work was the Sakis3G script[2], which seems quite self contained.

Andrew.

[1] http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
[2] http://www.sakis3g.org/
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