David and Katherine Goodwin

t-mobile's WebNWalk on Linux

Today, after having to organise a meeting with a customer in a room with no internet connectivity, we decided to 'buy' a t-mobile WebNWalk USB dongle thingy to connect to the web.

So... getting it to work... it was slightly painful. I'm not sure whether I needed to install the Vodafone thing or not - however, after installing it and restarting udev, it seemed to eventually start to work.

I'm only connecting using wvdial, and the configuration (/etc/wvdial.conf) is :

[Dialer tmob]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 460800
Init2 =AT
Init3 = AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0
ISDN = 0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = *99***1#
Username = username
Password = password

And connecting is then a 'simple' 'wvdial tmob' on the command line.

On a semi-interesting note, the vodafone binary setup script thing created :

root@theluggage:/etc/udev/rules.d# cat 99-huawei-e220.rules 
# From http://www.kanoistika.sk/bobovsky/archiv/umts/
SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1003", RUN+="/usr/sbin/huaweiAktBbo"
SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1001", RUN+="/usr/sbin/huaweiAktBbo"

and /usr/sbin/huaweiAktBbo comes from the vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux package. So it may well be necessary afterall. I ran 'vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux' a couple of times. It seemed to be that before running it, Linux would complain that the modem was non-responsive.

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