Vodafone pc card. Please help!

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Friday 20 July 2007 05:59:59 am Mario Gianni wrote:
> Jordi
>
> thanks for the answer. Not sure about the text below. How many files I need
> to create? Dial_3g.sh and wvdial.conf? Can you help me? Not sure where I
> need to put the netplc command.
>


> This is what I did (Vodafone Spain):

BEGIN WVDIAL
> [Dialer pin]
> Init1 = AT+CPIN=5792
>
> [Dialer hsdpa]
> Phone = *99***1#
> Username = vodafone
> Password = vodafone
> Stupid Mode = 1
> Dial Command = ATDT
> Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
> Baud = 460800
> Init2 = ATZ
> Init3 = ATE0V1&D2&C1S0=0+IFC=2,2
> ISDN = 0
> Modem Type = Analog Modem
> Init5 =AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","ac.vodafone.es";

END WVDIAL

>
> I also *removed the PIN number from the SIM card*.
>
> And sometimes I need to change the default route:
>
> $ sudo route del default eth0
> $ sudo route add default ppp0
>
> You can also check:

Ok, Mario

1st.  When you reply to a message if you'd like to keep the flow with the 
person who responded to you, put your reply down here (or in this case below 
mine.  It creates a natural flow that's easy to follow.  Also delete out any 
part that you know isn't necessary to understand your reply.  

2nd.  On the the files.  There are two files:  The first is located in the 
directory called /etc, and the name of that file is wvdial.conf

The contents of this file are in Jordi's response above as I have 
marked "BEGIN WVDIAL" and "END WVDIAL".  You need to copy the contents 
between those two markers and paste them into your wvdial.conf file.

The other is a script (presumably in Jordi's home directory) called dial_3g.sh
This file simply contains one line:

sudo wvdial hsdpa

create this file by opening a shell and pasting the following into it:

echo "sudo wvdial hsdpa" > dial_3g.sh ; chmod +x dial_3g.sh

There were then two other things he said he had to perform:

1.  He removed the PIN from the SIM card.  You'll have to ask him or check the 
web pages on why this is so.

2.  He also sometimes, note sometimes, has to change the default route using 
the following commands:

sudo route del default eth0
sudo route add default ppp0

Open a shell, such as Konsole, and enter each line in one after the other.

There were also some web sites to check to look into this further.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49056&highlight=vodafone+3g
http://www.ubuntu-es.org/index.php?q=node/33041

I would highly recommend looking around the internet for some basic Linux 
introduction materials.  It would help you a great deal, and there's a lot 
out there that's free.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/
a good place to find info.

http://www.linux.org/lessons/
Has some basic introduction tutorials that would also help out.

The more of this you learn on your own, the better off you'll be as you'll not 
need as much help, and when you do, you'll be able to recognize good 
answers, :-D.


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