Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
Peter Miller wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:59 +1100, david wrote: That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :( mine does Mine does when it's in the mood.. number: *99# username: a leave it blank doesn't seem to make a difference - i've tried blank, presently it has a and it connects. password: a your account PIN Seems like you can put anything there. At the moment mine says blah and it works. APN: 3netaccess 3services Correct network: blank PIN: blank your account PIN PUK: blank I think I might just be in a flaky area... Some times it works, sometimes it doesn't. It looked like a config problem but I've come to the conclusion it's the phase of the moon and strength of the wind. I thought it only worked reliably if I reboot but now I realise that's not relevant. That's how superstitions come about... looks like cause and effect but it isn't ;-) I've also noticed that I get better results if I disable wireless, regardless of whether I have a wireless connection or not. Again, I'm not sure if this is superstition or genuine cause-and-effect! Sometimes if I unplug the stick and replug it I get success, but not always. I haven't worked out a pattern (although each time I make sure that dmesg reports disconnect before re-inserting the stick). For the record... the nearly-always-working config is below: connect automatically checked (but it doesn't always) system setting not checked (what does this do?) number: *99# (no idea what this is... does anyone know?) username: a (meaningless??) password: blah (definitely meaningless gibberish but can't enter blank) APN: 3services network: blank PIN: blank PUK: blank The service was activated online on my wife's OS X, so I don't know about activation. Is this relevant? I wouldn't have thought so, but who knows? By the way, Grant.. I still don't understand that password thing I asked about. It doesn't ask for it anymore and I have no idea what I did to stop it, but whatever I typed was inserted into the password field in the config above. I think network-manager is black magic. Still haven't worked out where network-manager keeps it's data, but it would be nice to know. http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ has no docs at all. I'm sure they are somewhere but it looks suspiciously like trust us - we know what we are doing. Now who does that remind you of? Anyway, I wrote this email mainly in case someone is searching and has similar problems to me. The good news is that it mostly works, and a reboot seems to always solve any failure. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:59 +1100, david wrote: That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :( mine does number: *99# username: a leave it blank password: a your account PIN APN: 3netaccess 3services network: blank PIN: blank your account PIN PUK: blank -- Regards Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au /\/\*http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Grant Parnell wrote: Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some very useful things. 1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run wvdial from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I was talking about. 2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. This results in every attempt to DIAL returning ERROR in a terminal program such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for example. IE ATDT*99# = ERROR. 3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our case something to the effect of Error reading USIM card. Oh yeah an to spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the Install CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated CDROM - Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-) 4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue LED flashes indicating network availability (Windows Linux), ONLY when the SIM is inserted correctly. Does that mean you got the E180 working? Erik ... And there's the videos of just how easy it is to setup! http://www2.muli.com.au/Videos/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
Grant Parnell wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Grant Parnell wrote: Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some very useful things. 1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run wvdial from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I was talking about. 2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. This results in every attempt to DIAL returning ERROR in a terminal program such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for example. IE ATDT*99# = ERROR. 3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our case something to the effect of Error reading USIM card. Oh yeah an to spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the Install CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated CDROM - Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-) 4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue LED flashes indicating network availability (Windows Linux), ONLY when the SIM is inserted correctly. Does that mean you got the E180 working? Erik ... And there's the videos of just how easy it is to setup! http://www2.muli.com.au/Videos/ That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :( Does it make a difference that it's pre-paid? I read somewhere that it does. Does it make a difference that it was set up originally on OS X? (on which it worked perfectly) When I plug in and select it in the networkmanager drop down menu, it asks for a password (what is that??). The configuration tool has the following settings: number: *99# username: a password: a APN: 3netaccess network: blank PIN: blank PUK: blank If anyone can enlighten me I would appreciate it. thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
david wrote: Grant Parnell wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Grant Parnell wrote: Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some very useful things. 1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run wvdial from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I was talking about. 2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. This results in every attempt to DIAL returning ERROR in a terminal program such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for example. IE ATDT*99# = ERROR. 3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our case something to the effect of Error reading USIM card. Oh yeah an to spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the Install CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated CDROM - Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-) 4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue LED flashes indicating network availability (Windows Linux), ONLY when the SIM is inserted correctly. Does that mean you got the E180 working? Erik ... And there's the videos of just how easy it is to setup! http://www2.muli.com.au/Videos/ That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :( Does it make a difference that it's pre-paid? I read somewhere that it does. Does it make a difference that it was set up originally on OS X? (on which it worked perfectly) When I plug in and select it in the networkmanager drop down menu, it asks for a password (what is that??). The configuration tool has the following settings: number: *99# username: a password: a APN: 3netaccess network: blank PIN: blank PUK: blank If anyone can enlighten me I would appreciate it. thanks David. Oh the password thing is for sudo so it can run with root privileges, it's just the password you use to login to your desktop session. It says in the little quick start guide thingy that if you're on pre-paid you have to Ring Three and get them to activate your service. It also says to change the APN to 3services. This can be done from Network Manager by right clicking and going into the setup or just editing /etc/wvdial.conf directly (not sure if NM will overwrite). How's things?.. long time no see. -- Grant Parnell | Muli Management Pty Ltd | T: 02 9487 3241 | 124 Fox Valley Rd Wahroonga NSW 2076 | -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
2009/3/11 david da...@kenpro.com.au: number: *99# username: a password: a APN: 3netaccess network: blank PIN: blank PUK: blank Try leaving the username and password blank (only fill in the number and APN). I'm with Exetel (Optus network) and that's how it works for me. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
