Just to reiterate a comment I made to this thread previously. Are you
sure the APN is not telstra.internet?? There is a difference between
modems sold by Telstra and those sold by Big Pond. If you bought it at a
Telstra shop it will be a Telstra one with an APN of telstra.internet
>1. Re: 12.04LTS and the Telstra 4G mobile wireless modem (Geoffrey)
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> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:31:19 +1000
> From: Geoffrey
> To: Ubuntu-AU
> Subject: Re: 12.04LTS and the Telstra 4G mobile wireless modem
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> I have made some progress with this Internet modem (but I'm not there
> yet).
> Firstly I established the current sierra modem driver version in each of
> my two computers using the terminal command: 'modinfo sierra'
> PC1 with 10.04LTS: v1.3.8
> PC2 with 12.04LTS: v.1.7.16
> I then referred to the Sierra Wireless link given by Jared Norris
> (thanks) and downloaded the latest driver tar file: v.1.2_1740
> Note: This is listed for kernels 2.6.32 (10.04) on up to the last
> mentioned 3.0.x. The kernel for 12.04 is 3.2.0.
> The procedure used for PC2 (12.04LTS) was an abbreviated version of that
> given by Sierra:
> 1. Open the tar file and extract the three files Makefile, sierra.c and
> sierra_net.c to Desktop.
> 2. Move these three files to the Home folder (directory).
> 3. Open Terminal and enter the command: cd /home/geoffrey
> The prompt is now 'geoffrey'
> 4. Enter the command: make
> This should compile the driver files. It did.
>Stay in the terminal.
> 5. To install the divers enter: sudo make install
> (Enter your sudo password if requested)
> 6. Verify installation with the command: modinfo sierra
> This duly showed that new sierra version v.1.2_1740 was successfully
> installed.
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> I then plugged in the Sierra modem Aircard 320U (not 360U as I have said
> incorrectly previously), The blue power led was on and the blue signal
> LED flashed indicating that it was ready to communicate.
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> I then created a new connection name using Ubuntu's connection manager
> which correctly identified the modem as the Sierra Aircard 320U. I
> entered my previous user name and password and APN (telstra.bigpond).
> Next I opened the Internet connection menu and found all the Mobile
> Broadband connection names including the new one just created. These
> have not been seen before so it seemed to be working at last.
> However attempts to connect failed because the transmission signal (the
> radiating applet) stopped after only 2 seconds, not long enough to make
> a connection. It is not normal for the transmission to stop so quickly.
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> And this is as far as I have got. Close but not near enough. Any further
> advice will be gratefully received.
> Geoffrey Combes
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