[dundee] wvdial and sms?

[Sean McRobbie]

Hello,

The shop can certainly do it for you - my grandad got his unlocked that way..

As for unlocking it via credit card... not so sure as I don't trust them with my details.

Perhaps it is one of these situations where it'd be quicker to use a windows virtual machine (or old machine) to use their crappy client.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nistur" <nistur at googlemail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, 13 June, 2010 10:12:44 AM
Subject: [dundee] wvdial and sms?

Why do I always have internet problems? I'm pretty sure not everyone
has as many issues as me.

Anyway, I've been having issues with TalkTalk. They claim I don't
exist, so they can't move my account.

In desparation I've gone to T-mobile and temporarily got a USB modem thingumy.

I am using it with wvdial (technically using it with the Sakis3G script...)

The modem is a ZTE USB Stick 120
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 036: ID 19d2:0031 ONDA Communication S.p.A. ZTE MF636

Now, it's working fine. I can connect and everything. Surfing the web works.

There's just one problem.

T-Mobile have parental controls. Now, I swear this isn't for naughty
sites... but the principle... Site filters have a tendancy to be too
strict just in case they accidentally let something through and they
get sued for exposing a 12 year old to porn which they've never seen
before anyway... anyway... I don't like people telling me what I can
and can't look at... like most here... so I went about removing the
parental filter... this was either go into tmobile shop (closest is
not close and shut early saturday, and all day sundar) calling from
the mobile in question (it's a modem... and I can't be bothered to put
the sim card into a phone... it's damned hard to get out...) or
register online. Bingo. I registered. Then it said they sent a PIN
code to activate the registration to the mobile. hmmm. again faced
with the possibility of removing the sim. I did a bit of googling and
found that _some_ USB modems have had successes sending/receiving sms
using gnokii... but I can't for the life of me find any instructions
for any modems like the one I have.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Know how I might attack the
modem into getting it to play nice, or give me some options to play
around with?

Thanks
Nistur

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