Comments on: Vodafone 3G card in Ubuntu

By: r mcgrath

r mcgrath — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:58:11 +0000

Reading this lot makes me realise why I stick with microsoft

By: Arshaad

Arshaad — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:21:58 +0000

I happen to struggle with this in 8.10 and all previous versions of unbuntu. Though I recall that someone had written a vodafone package which updated from a very old version. 7.04. I wish I could find that guy who has as it is good to have the updates from the sms’s Vodafone and service providers make available.

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:07:54 +0000

Hi! For some reason i cant get past the loading of the Gnome-PPP Command.In Terminal,it says the following’insert password for {user}(in my case “undertaker”).I try to write,nothing displays,though i press enter and then it says ‘Sorry try again’. I tried again,and then it said,with my controlling:

[sudo] password for undertaker:
Reading package-lists…Done…
Building thread…
Reading condition information… Done
E: Could not find package gnome-ppp
/////////////////////////////////////
It says something like that,atleast what i translated from swedish.

Any help?I really gotta get internet here!
Ubuntu is awsome when it works!

By: Andrew Gee

Andrew Gee — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:14:18 +0000

Wayne,

I believe so. The only thing that could change is the address of the modem. You should be able to find the /dev/ address of your modem by plugging it in and then running dmesg, as I explained in the blog post.

Glad I could help.
Andrew

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:52:47 +0000

Andrew,

This looks just what I’m after. I have a Vodafone 3G usb stick as opposed to the PCMIA card. Are the instructions still valid for usb ?

Thanks

By: Andrew Gee

Andrew Gee — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:07:44 +0000

Glad I could help, Graeme.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:04:08 +0000

Excellent post. Working a treat for me. On vodafone 3g right now.

By: Sajjad

Sajjad — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:47:25 +0000

hi i followed you way to configure my option 3G laptopconnect card. but I m getting following error in log file when i try to connect

/home/lpsah/.wvdial.conf: Ignoring malformed input line: “;Do NOT edit this file by hand!”
WvDial: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56
WvModem: Cannot get information for serial port.
WvDial: Initializing modem.
WvDial: Sending: ATX3
WvDial: Sending: ATQ0
WvDial: Re-Sending: ATX3
WvDial: Modem not responding.

Befor that when i write msg “dmesg” to find out my port i got following

2281.252000] ohci_hcd 0000:07:00.1: irq 18, io mem 0×38001000
[ 2281.336000] usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2281.336000] hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2281.336000] hub 7-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 2285.248000] usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 2285.464000] usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2285.464000] option 7-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 2285.464000] usb 7-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 2285.468000] option 7-1:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 2285.468000] usb 7-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1

please can you inform me is there any change for my settings and about “novj” … can you please elaborate further…
Thanks… i m struglling with it from last ten days…
i installed voda fone driver but its not detecting my modem as well… if you can help in either case …

By: lior

lior — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:22:57 +0000

hi, just wanted to say thanks. Your guide helped me configure my debian laptop with Israel’s Cellcom (APN was “internetg”). i needed to define ppp0 as the default route (sudo route add default ppp0) since i have two more ethernet card, but other than that – your guide was very helpfull! thanks!

By: Andrew Gee

Andrew Gee — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:36:05 +0000

Well it does seem to be a quite popular topic. Where would you like me to continue this topic, Maximus?