How best to activate a mobile internet modem/ SIM card @ Kubuntu Karmic?

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Sinclair and Everybody

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>>>> I really would prefer some solution allowing me to use WICD for LAN
>>>> and WLAN in combination with some other packages for the mobile USB
>>>> broadband device "HUAWEI E1820".
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>>> For starters you should install Lucid as it has more drivers than
>>> Karmic. Second, remove the PIN using a phone.
>>
>> In the mean time, I have installed Lucid and removed the PIN via a mobile phone.
> Good - for starters according to ubuntuforums and other threads this
> modem should work so we should get it right sooner or later

Good to hear this :-)!

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>> I have installed the package "usb-modeswitch". However, the modem
>> still appears as a CD-drive instead of a modem. So far, I did not find
>> any way to get this package working. Any clue?
> It does not really do anything you "see" but the modem SHOULD now no
> longer appear as a CD-drive, at least not a mounted one. If so - eject
> or unmount it

OK, I have done so via Dolphin.

>
>>
>>> Lastly either set up kppp.
>>>
>>> Kppp must be run as "kdesudo kppp" or you get headaches, I made a
>>> shortcut myself.
>>
>> In another mail, you have tried to explain how to make this
>> "shortcut", however, I did not exactly understand it.
> If you have a Folder View on the Plasma Desktop, create a shortcut to
> application in it. Set the command in said shortcut to be "kdesudo kppp".
Are you aiming at the blue folder icon with the yellow star,
immediately next to the K-menu icon?
I did find there a possibility to make shortcuts - however, only to
specific folders so far. I did not discover yet any possibility to
give in somewhere in a shortcut menu the command "kdesudo kppp". I
would appreciate to find it.

> Otherwise you can run the command from kicker using alt+F2
That works fine for me now anyway.

>
>>
>>> Set up an account that dials *99***1# or *99#1, call it whatever you want.
> I mean "name it what you want", the account that is
>
>> Neither "*99***1#", nor "*99#1", call it whatever you want.
> sorry it should very likely be *99# - but this is something your
> provider should know

I email this question to Tmobile NL, my provider.

>
>>> Set up a "3G" modem and change it to use /dev/ttyUSB(0-2), you have to
>>> experiment which port works. On one modem I have USB0, on another UBS2
>>> as port instead of /dev/modem
>> So far, I have tried 4 ports:
>> /dev/ttyUSB0
>> /dev/ttyUSB1
>> /dev/ttyUSB2
>> /dev/ttyUSB3
>> Neither of them seemed to work so far.
> After you inserted the modem and (if necessary) unmounted/ejected it run
> command "dmesg". Somewhere you should see lines about "gsm modem...
> /dev/ttyUSBx". Post output here if you can.

The most relevant info seems to be in the last +/- 20 lines of the
output. A GSM modem is indeed being detected - attached to: ttyUSB0,
ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2, ttyUSB3. The "CD ROM Mass storage device" is also
being mentioned there. That's why I copy only those lines here.
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[ 2597.622449] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 2597.622465] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 2597.699989] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 2597.702033] USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 2597.702387] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 2597.702396] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[ 2597.715613] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
[ 2597.719986] option 1-6:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 2597.720303] usb 1-6: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 2597.720385] option 1-6:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 2597.720614] usb 1-6: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 2597.720663] option 1-6:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 2597.720839] usb 1-6: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 2597.720887] option 1-6:1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 2597.721434] usb 1-6: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB3
[ 2597.721503] usbcore: registered new interface driver option
[ 2597.721510] option: v0.7.2:USB Driver for GSM modems
[ 2602.618155] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 2602.619094] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass Storage
  2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 2602.620766] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 2602.623784] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HUAWEI   TF CARD
Storage       PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 2602.632848] sr0: scsi-1 drive
[ 2602.632859] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 2602.640096] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 2602.647073] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 2602.651144] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 2602.670568] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 4290.162448] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
[ 4290.163709] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 6545.421920] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
[ 6545.423024] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
bas at Viaconsensus2:~$

>>> Go into modem commands (this is Kppp I am talking about) and change only
>>> Initialization string 2 to be:
>>> AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","yourprovider.xxx"
>>
>> Do you mean something like the string below?
>> AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","tmobile.xxx"
>>
>> ("TMobile" is the name of my mobile internet provider.)
> Yes, it can be tmobile.net or tmobile.com or something like that. Again,
> your provider should be able to tell you.

I check this in the e-mail to him.


>>> when you dial set user to be " ", an empty space, or you get an error.

Do you mean: an empty space inbetween " " ? Or are you simply pointing
at an empty space to be created with the tabulator, without any other
sign at all?

>>
>> Is there anything else I could take into account in order to get my
>> mobile internet working via KPPP at Kubuntu 9.10 via the dongle "HUAEI
>> E1820"
> There are a number of ways but let's wait until we are done with
> combination Wicd/Kppp

I agree with this approach.

Respectfully yours,

Bas.