right, it's a bit late, and maybe the wrong time to reply, but wont get to try it till later tomorrow anyway.... what you sent makes sense... so turn off autorun. unplug, replug, detected as a modem (ppp), set up connect details like an old modem, start connection?? like i said late, but is that the general idea? as you said, different dongle, different network, but similar commands, where did you find out yours? google? if yes, what you search for? hope you understood me lol appreciate the help > Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:40:30 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: T-Mobile Mobile Broadband USB stick 615 (Huawei e173) > > Hi, > > > Hi guys, > > Has anyone used a USB Mobile Broadband device with LFS? > > A quick search with google comes up with Mint and Ubuntu and using > > usb-modeswitch or something, > > and one result that went to T-Mobile said only laptops and sticks brought > > as a bundle from Carphonewharehouse > > are supported. > > > > If someone has been able to get this working, any chance of a > > guide/pointing in the right direction.. > > > > ps at the moment i am running a 6.3 I think on a sony vaio laptop, and > > about to install the latest 6.8 when i get around to it, > > if i have to i`ll use windows to download everything then boot into lfs to > > start 6.8 install > > I've got a ZTE MF100 from O2. > I've tested some of it on Debian Lenny but all the support is in the > kernel so you should have no trouble getting it working on LFS. > > When I plug it in it shows up as a SCSI CD-ROM drive. > If you immediately run 'eject /dev/sr0' (or whatever device it shows up > as) then it'll redetect as a set of USB serial ports: > /dev/ttyUSB{0,1,2,3} in my case. > > Here I copy and paste my notes on switching off the autorun functionality: > > ----- > Switching off autorun: > > + insert the device > + use dmesg to find out when the "CD-ROM" device has been detected > + Eject the "CD-ROM" device : 'eject /dev/sr0' > + use dmesg to wait until the tty devices have been detected > + /dev/ttyUSB{1,2} seem to work, {0,3} don't > + Use 'minicom -s' on /dev/ttyUSB2 to disable autorun in future: > + AT+ZCDRUN=8 > + unplug the stick > + replug the stick and use dmesg to wait until /dev/ttyUSB{0,1,2,3} > have been detected again > ----- > > > My laptop has an inbuilt Ericsson modem. > I bought the O2 modem to get the PAYG sim card to put into the Ericsson. > I've never used the ZTE MF100 to connect to The Internet. > Here's how I use minicom to get the Ericsson to connect to The Internet > (again copy and pasted from my notes). > I'm not sure if these will work for all 3G modems as they use some of > the extended command set and the CDC-Ethernet features of the Ericsson. > > S: is what I send. > R: is what the modem replies with. > > ----- > S: AT+CFUN=1 > R: OK > R: > R: *EMWI: 1,0 > R: > R: +PACSP0 > R: > R: OK > S: AT*EIAAUR=0 > R: *EIAAUR: 1,1,"o2bb","password",00111,0 > R: > S: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","m-bb.o2.co.uk" > R: OK > S: AT+CGDCONT? > R: +CGDCONT: 1,"IP","m-bb.o2.co.uk","0.0.0.0",0,0 > R: > R: OK > S: AT*ENAP=1,1 > ----- > > You should only need to set the AT*EIAAUR and AT_CGDCONT details once. > I note that I haven't included the AT*EIAAUR set command in my notes. Sorry. > The account details I use above are the (current) O2 UK PAYG APN details > verbatim: there are no user specific passwords or anything. > T-Mobile will have different details and you can usually find them with > your favourite search engine. > > AT+CFUN=1 switches the modem on > AT*ENAP=1,1 causes the usb modem to connect to 3G and it creates a new > ethernet device usb0. > > I can then see the ethernet device with 'ifconfig -a'. > I can get an IP address with 'dhclient usb0' > ...then I can surf the web until my battery dies. > > > > HTH > > > > Regards, > @ndy > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ > 0x7EBA75FF > > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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