12.04 LTS and Telstra 4G moble wireless modem - Resolution

[Jared Norris]

On 28 September 2012 18:04, Geoffrey Wilfred Combes
<gcombes4 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> As of today I am connecting successfully to 12.04 LTS via the new
> Telstra modem a Sierra AirCard 320U.
> The key to getting there was Jared Noriss's advice to obtain and install
> the latest Sierra driver for Ubuntu. He provided the website. The
> procedure I used to install the driver was given in my mailing dated 4
> September. Hopefully this driver will be valid for future Ubuntu
> versions at least for some time.
> I had further problems (preventing connection) related to registering
> the modem. These were:
> 1. To register one must install the software provided on the modem in a
> Windows OS. Installation my old XP crashed halfway through the process
> preventing me from using the Windows connection manager.
> 2. The software was successfully installed on a Windows 7 laptop but
> registration could not be completed because the modem oscillated between
> search and ready to connect. This is not uncommon and it is thought that
> the modem is trying more than one band (it has three).
> 3. It is not possible to register using the previous user name (as I was
> doing).
> All of these problems were resolved by the Telstra (technical)
> consultant in the local Telstra shop. He carried out the registration on
> his laptop and, importantly at my request, kept my previous user name
> and so preserved my email address. The upside is that the new modem and
> its link to Telstra is much faster than my old modem.
> Geoffrey
>
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Thanks for letting us know how it turned out. Lets hope soon the
firmware will available in the main kernel and you won't have to jump
through too many hoops in future releases.

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Regards,

Jared Norris
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris