Bigpond USB wireless modem

[Paul Gear]

carlj wrote:
> Gentelmen,
> 
> New to all of this, however I'm surprise how easy it was to install
> and see verything working on my labtop, minus my bigpond USB wireless
> modem.
> 
> New to this, I'm totally lost in how to try to sort out this issure.
> Have read the documation and some of your post here on this forum,
> however that have not help in any way.
> 
> When i'm looking in the Network Manager there is no wireless
> connection! that's how far I'm.
> 
> Hope someone could lead me in the right direction.

After you've modprobed the module, the device is usable as a *dialup
modem*, not a wirless connection.  You must use the modem device
/dev/ttyUSB1 and set up a dialup connection to the phone number *99#

You do this through manual configuration in the network manager.

Paul
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