[wellylug] Vodafone 3G Card Connection in Kubuntu 9.04

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

UMTSMon is awesome... Just install it and it does everything.  Trust
me it's just like the vodafone windows dialer, but on Linux.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Nathan Cook <nathan at cook.net.nz> wrote:
> Thanks for all yoiur help so far.
> Here's some more info for anyone that might have an idea of what to do:
>
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Activation
> (ttyUSB0) starting connection 'Vodafone'
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  (ttyUSB0):
> device state change: 3 -> 4
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Activation
> (ttyUSB0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Activation
> (ttyUSB0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <debug>
> [1240911612.058931] nm_serial_device_open(): (ttyUSB0) opening device...
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    Invalid baudrate
> '169928994'
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    Invalid bits (0).
> Valid values are 5, 6, 7, 8.
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    Invalid parity (
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    Invalid stop bits
> (0). Valid values are 1 and 2)
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Activation
> (ttyUSB0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  (ttyUSB0):
> powering up...
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Registered
> on Home network
> 2009-04-28 21:40:12    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Associated
> with network: +COPS: 0,2,"53001",2
> 2009-04-28 21:41:13    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <WARN>
> dial_done(): Dialing timed out
> 2009-04-28 21:41:13    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  (ttyUSB0):
> device state change: 4 -> 9
> 2009-04-28 21:41:13    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <debug>
> [1240911673.001366] nm_serial_device_close(): Closing device 'ttyUSB0'
> 2009-04-28 21:41:13    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Marking
> connection 'Vodafone' invalid.
> 2009-04-28 21:41:13    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  Activation
> (ttyUSB0) failed.
> 2009-04-28 21:41:13    nathan-laptop    NetworkManager    <info>  (ttyUSB0):
> device state change: 9 -> 3
>
> From what I can see searching Google there are other people having the same
> issue with the new Network Manager Plasma Widget and GSM etc cards, some
> have recommended using the older KNetwork Manager and getting rid of the
> Plasma Widget. Which I'll try. UMTSMon has a number or requirements like
> QT-Devel for KDE 3.5 which I may try if regressing to the older KNetwork
> Manager doesn't fix.
>
> Regards
>
> Nathan
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Anton <anton.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/4/28 Nathan Cook <nathan at cook.net.nz>:
>> > Thanks Jasper,
>> >
>> > I'm getting somewhere now with that info.
>> >
>> > It now attempts to connect but goes nowhere, are you using Kubuntu 9.04?
>>
>> I've had them working properly in Ubuntu 8.10 - they were auto
>> detected and the only setting I needed to change was the APN (I used
>> the same APN that Jasper mentioned).
>>
>> I'm not sure if Kubuntu does anything differently though. Someone else
>> in the office dualboots Kubuntu (8.10 I think), and he's currently out
>> of town with the offices Vodem - I'll email him to see if it works in
>> Kubuntu.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Anton
>>
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