Android and Huawei GSM modem - toronto dialup settings

[Dave Germiquet]

Thanks Russel for sharing,

I think my sister is buying one of these and will need my help on it later
on :)

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Russell reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I did a fresh install of Debian squeeze and found that installing from
> the first cd only gave me the behaviour I expected from Linux. When I
> subsequently plugged in the phone, it was recognized immediatly as
> product id 1031 and not 1035. It would have been 1035, if it had been
> present during install process and been previously polled by udev's
> rules generator and subject to all the custom rules provided.
>
> This machine had a ethernet card but it wasn't connected to a lan or
> the internet. I set up networking during the install but since I
> couldn't connnect to a mirror, the network manager wasn't available. I
> could have used more cd's, but heck its more fun this way.
>
> I downloaded tclsh, usb_modeswitch, ppp and wvdial and related
> dependencies with my phone and used dpkg to install. The firmware info
> and udev rules from my previous post created ttyUSB0 through 4.
>
> Here's /etc/wvdial.conf with local settings for Wind in this area.
>
> [Dialer Defaults]
> Init1 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.windmobile.ca"
> Modem Type =  USB Modem
> Phone =*99#
> ISDN = 0
> Password = *
> New PPPD = yes
> Username = *
> Baud = 9600
> Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
> Baud = 460800
> Stupid Mode = 1
>
> Stupid mode starts pppd right away without a prompt from the carrier.
> If you are using a Huawei stick you'd probably change
> internet.windmobile.ca --> broadband.windmobile.ca and most likely
> provide your username and password.
>
> I use dropbox on my pc. I was using it at a clients request, but when
> I saw it was available for Android, I just had to do this.
>
> Russell
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