[wellylug] Vodafone 3G Card Connection in Kubuntu 9.04

[Nathan Cook]

Got UMTSMon working, really easy actually :)

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Nathan Cook <nathan at cook.net.nz> wrote:

> 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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