Rogers Mobile Internet Stick working under Linux
Ivan Avery Frey
ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 28 14:48:54 UTC 2008
Robert Brockway wrote:
> Exactly. The device appears as a serial device (/dev/ttyUSB0 for me)
> and is managed through pppd. I've used wvdial to do the dial-up script
> this time.
>
> In the past I had occassionally used a GPRS phone for slow (and
> expensive) data access and it appeared the same way.
>
> There is a *gotcha* in starting the device but this isn't as bad as it
> first sounds as it is easy to work around.
>
> When the MC950D is first detected by Ubuntu (and probably other distros)
> is appears as a mass storage device[1]. I fixed this problem with the
> following method. Not ideal but it works consistently:
>
> 1. Make sure /proc/bus/usb is mounted
> 2. Plug in MC950D
> 3. Execute the following commands as root
>
> rmmod usbserial
> eject /dev/sr1
> modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x4400
>
> Now you should see /dev/ttyUSB0 & /dev/ttyUSB1 in dmesg.
>
> You can then execute the script to establish the "serial" connection.
>
> I'll be automating this more in due course and I hope to find a smarter
> way of getting it to recognise the MC950D as a "serial" device.
>
> [1] It actually is a mass storage device.
Can the device be both a mass storage and a serial device at the same time?
Ivan.
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