Need help with mobile broadband connection

[universe777]

Hi,
I've installed Karmic Alpha 5 yesterday andI'm surprised about the good work again, thumbs up !!!
Now, I'm trying to get a mobile connection with my Samsung NC10, but I'm not really
sure how to do it. My Provider is t-mobile. As is saw in Ubuntu, t-mobile is already listed
in the network manager. I have the t-mobile connection data, but I can't get it to work with
Kubuntu. Can someone explain how it works,please ? Thanks.

[Fintan]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

I am not sure I know what you mean here.

Are you trying to connect with a mobile modem or with the wifi card?

This may be of help:
http://www.netbooknews.it/en/ubuntu-...-samsung-nc10/

I don't nave a netbook but I iinstalled the gnome network manager on my laptop (acer travel mate4021) and junked the kde one as it has too many quirks at the moment.

The gnome nm lets me use both mobile broadband and wifi.

Hope this helps

[universe777]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

Sorry. I want to connect with my mobile modem, the wificard is working well,
as I'm writing this here
Under Ubuntu Jaunty the mobile connection works out of the box, just choose
your provider and enter your Pin. But under Kubuntu, you have to enter your
provider settings manually and that's the thing. I'm trying to get the right
setting for t-mobile ... What package is the gnome network manager exactly ?
gnome-network-admin ? Maybe I'm trying this out. Thx.

[hteles]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

Hi,

the package you are looking for is network-manager-gnome and maybe mobile-broadband-provider-info.

If knetworkmanager gets in the way you can $kill knetworkmanager and start $nm-applet.

knetworkmanager is working fine for me now, except for vpn support.

BTW, i googled my isp settings. :P

[universe777]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

Ok, after strugglin around with my mobile connection under Kubuntu Karmic, I'll give it another try.
I've got my ISP settings, they were working correctly in Ubuntu with Gnome and XP too.
Number to dial : *99#
APN : internet.t-d1.de
Name : equal
Password : equal
DNS : 193.254.160.1, 193.254.160.130
Pin : ****

But it still refuses to work,hmm ... As I see, there is no option in Knetworkmanager for the DNS
addresses, maybe that's the point ?

[hteles]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

hi,

if you're remaining problem is domain name resolving you could do this after establishing the connection.

echo "nameserver 193.254.160.1" > /etc/resolv.conf

nm-applet from gnome network-manager front-end allows you to specify your dns entries.

Best Wishes

[Fintan]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

This is by no means a solution, but just what I had to do.

I had mint linux kde (with kde4.2.3) installed on my travelmate and then gave karmic a different partition and username.

Knetworkmanager never worked with my option icon 225 mobile broadband stick from karmic but did from mint, which uses the gnome networkmanager.

So copied the following from the mint user to my karmic user:
.kde/share/apps/networkmanagement/connections
.kde/share/config/networkmanagmentrc

and knetworkmanager works fine with mobile broadband.

I had tried wvdial from here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3104766.0

It works but is cumbersome.

I really hope they get this fixed soon, but somehow doubt it.

[Fintan]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

After RC release I decided to delete my mint partition.

Broadband mobile stopped working.

solution?

Install network-manager-gnome which will also install a providers list.

After a reboot broadband mobile is working.

I don't see why I need nm-gnome for this but at least it works.

[universe777]

Re: Need help with mobile broadband connection

Hi Folks,

first of all, I wish all users here a happy new year and want to tell
you that I have good news :

After thinking about giving up Kubuntu and return to Ubuntu Jaunty
(Jaunty is the only distro where my mobile broadband works out of the box)
I decided to move to Google again, because I like KDE more than Gnome.
After a lot googlin' this problem I found this Kubuntu & Ubuntu Wiki :

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/NetworkMana...are/3G/Probing
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManag...are/3G/Probing

(Maybe the same sites )

I found out the right bus type and identifiers for my internal samsung
NC 10 net book modem, loaded the driver with

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x04e8 product=0x6773

probed my modem with the probe.txt script described in Kubuntu wiki link above.

chat -s -f ~/Desktop/probe.txt >/dev/ttyACM0 </dev/ttyACM0

and at last i do a

sudo dmesg|grep tty

I don't know where i found that but it puts the usb device in the right order,
I think.
After hacking these three wonderful commands in the terminal, the mobile
broadband connection in knetworkmanager works like charm.
I also had to put a startup script to overwrite resolv.conf
with my needed provider name servers, changed rc.local to load the driver
and probe the modem at startup, so I can use it out of the box

The only thing I don't really get is that I have to probe the modem
with the probe.txt script mentioned above after loading the driver,
if i do not, the connection refuses to work ... Maybe someone
can explain me why, I thought it's just a test ?

I'm really happy with Kubuntu and this proves me that with Linux
you can do it all ...

I wish a happy new year's day, cheers