[wellylug] Vodafone 3G Card Connection in Kubuntu 9.04

[Nathan Cook]

Looking into UMTSmon now, can't seem to find a deb file and when I use Alien
to change the rpm to a deb it errors out, anyone have a link to a deb file?

Tried the source as well and can't get it to make...

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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