[wellylug] Telecom XT - ZTE USB modem

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

Have you tried umtsmon?? I have had a lot of joy with voda and CDMA  
telecom devices. Havnt tried the xt stick. But if it's broken you  
could always return it and say I tried I make this work but it  
doesn't. Pop out your sim and try another device.

The more expensive stick from telecom is a sierra wireless one. So  
should be better supported as the sierra site has Linux drivers for  
most of its cards. It may work better.. In theory ;)

On 15/09/2009, at 12:06 PM, Jonathan Harker <jon at jon.geek.nz> wrote:

> Has anyone had any luck with the $200 ZTE (MF636) USB modem? I've been
> browsing the Ubuntu forums and only got so far.
>
> This modem initially appears in lsusb as a storage device 19d2:2000,
> which when unmounted then switches to a serial device 19d2:0031.  
> Adding
> this udev rule sorts this bit out:
>
> SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000", RUN+="/usr/bin/ 
> eject
> %k", OPTIONS+="last_rule"
>
> Once the serial device appears, the /dev/ttyUSB{0,1,2} devices appear,
> which is fine.
>
> I'm running Karmic Alpha 5, which handily includes NZ Vodafone and
> Telecom Xt in its network manager wizard, except it doesn't seem to  
> work.
>
> One interesting thing I found was advice to poke an AT command at it  
> in
> another OS:
>
> AT+ZCDRUN=8
>
> Which apparently switches the autorun storage device switching off.
> Except that it didn't, and interestingly the device now doesn't work  
> in
> Windows either. So it might be that I've bricked it somehow. Oops.
>
> Anyway thanks for listening :-)
> J
>
>
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