On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Del <[email protected]> wrote: > Still - so far I haven't heard that it works with Linux so I'm not >> sure it's an option, unless I manage to test it successfully in the >> shop somehow (my own company issued laptop's display died this week so >> I'll have to buy a new one before I can do that). >> > > It will work with Linux for certain values of "Linux". > > That means that certain distros and certain kernel versions will have the > right bits and pieces so that you can, in most cases, cobble together a > working device and a working driver. If you're tied into a specific Linux > distro then you're probably stuffed. > > Having said that I got mine working OK with CentOS 5.4 when it absolutely > refused to play with CentOS 5.2. I've had it working briefly with Ubuntu > 9.10 with the kernel that came with the distro just to try it out, it failed > again once I did a kernel upgrade, then I switched back to the gateway > because I need something that works all of the time (and in particular, I > need something low power that will allow the VoIP phone to connect and my > android phone to get wifi when the laptop is switched off). > > I tried about 4 different versions and models of the device, including 2 > different objects that had the same model number and appeared to have the > same chipset, albeit probably different internal firmware, and could only be > differentiated by the serial numbers -- one failed to work at all under any > version of Linux, one worked fine on all versions with no problems. Some of > the different models worked on some kernels and not others, and vice-versa. > > Your kilometerage may vary a whole lot. In nautical terms that's called > cross-track error (XTE). > > The following works for me using an ASUS eeePC 701 running Puppy Linux (Boxpuppeee) Edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf as follows
[Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyUSB2 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = off New PPPD = yes Baud = 9600 Phone = *99# Dial Prefix = Dial Attempts = 1 Dial Command = ATDT Ask Password = off Password = off Username = na Auto Reconnect = off Abort on busy = off Carrier Check = off Check Def Route = off Abort on No Dialtone = off Stupid Mode = on Then when you want to connect to the internet you insert the USB thingy and wait. A led in the modem will light up green at first and then blue. In Puppy a CD drive icon will then appear. In a terminal window do eject /dev/sr0 The CD drive icon will disappear and the blue led will be extinguished. Wait until first the green and then the blue led is illuminated and then do wvdial Wvdial will establish the connection and you can start your browser etc. To close the connection when you are finished type Ctrl-C in the terminal window where wvdial is running. Wait a little while then remove the USB. I'm sure there is a more elegant solution but the above worked for me. One downside of this method is that because you are not running the Telstra connection program you cant see how much credit you have left on the account. cheers, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
