[Gllug] USB Mobile Modem with Linux

[Hari Pillai]

Hi,
The Vodafone software driver which Caroline mentioned in the previous email
worked sucessfully.( I have to disable the Wifi-driver to run this).
thanks for your help folks..

thanks
Hari



On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Caroline Ford <
caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:

>  On 02/04/2008, Jonathan Patrick Davies <davies.jpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 April 2008 23:12:48 Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> >  > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 22:10 +0100, Hari Pillai wrote:
> >
> > > > I have a Vodafone USB mobile modem. The drivers supplied are for
> >  > > windows xp/vista and MAC. Any ideas how I install it for Linux
> please?
> >
> >
> > > Plug it in and see what it (output to console) says (I assume you've
> >  > already tried this, though)
> >
> >
> > One could also try doing "dmesg | tail" after plugging it in to say if
> the
> >  kernel picks it up.
>
> They are usb serial modems who appear in /dev/ttyUSB*
>
> The issue is the fact that they have some CD formatted flash on them
> containing the windows drivers. This needs to be 'switched off' for
> the modem to work. Modern kernels know this and do it automatically.
>
> The other issue is then knowing which number to dial. My Vodafone
> modem dials *99***2#
>
> Caroline
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