3G Dongles

admin - Wed, 2009-08-05 13:26

This page describes various methods for connecting your 3G dongle to your Linux computer.

I have tested these with Vodafone (contract) dongle - Huawei E220 HSDPA Modem and on Ubuntu 8.04. Later versions of linux tend to have tools built in (for instance - I was able to use the network manager in Fedora Core 11 and the dongle and provider were built in). As with all things linux - you have some options:

This page describes various methods for connecting your 3G dongle to your Linux computer.

I have tested these with Vodafone (contract) dongle - Huawei E220 HSDPA Modem and on Ubuntu 8.04. Later versions of linux tend to have tools built in (for instance - I was able to use the network manager in Fedora Core 11 and the dongle and provider were built in). As with all things linux - you have some options:

  • Betavine - provides an application to connect to the Vodafone network. This is support to work with other providers too. The connection in initiated by the user and the application provides some tools to integrate with SMS and to check your usage.
  • Wvdial - a command line tool where the connection is initiated by the user
  • Pon - command line tool - can be automated to create a connection when your computer boots
  • gnome-ppp - another graphical tool

Betavine

Files and instrcutions are located here:

https://forge.betavine.net/frs/?group_id=12

wvdial

Add this to the end of /etc/wvdial.conf

 [Dialer Defaults]
 Phone = *99***1#
 Username = web
 Password = web
 Stupid Mode = 1
 Dial Command = ATDT
 Carrier Check = No
 Auto Reconnect = on 

 [Dialer hsdpa]
 Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
 Baud = 460800
 Init2 = ATZ
 Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
 Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet" 
 ISDN = 0
 Modem Type = Analog Modem

The execute:

 wvdial hsdpa

pon

Create the following files:

 vi /etc/ppp/peers/voda3g
 hide-password 
  noauth
  connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/voda3g"
  debug
  /dev/ttyUSB0
  460800
  defaultroute
  noipdefault 
  user "web"
  ipparam voda3g
  usepeerdns

 vi /etc/chatscripts/voda3g
 ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE'
  ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED
  '' ATZ
  OK-AT-OK "ATDT*99#"
  CONNECT \d\c

then start the ppp connection

 pon voda3g
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