Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Dear List, > > I just received a gift from my wife of a Verizon mobile broadband (GSM) > usb modem. Unfortunately all of the documentation is for the inferior > MS platform. > > I have plugged it into my usb port and nm-tool recognizes it as : > > Device ----ttyACM0----- > Type : Mobile Broadband (GSM) > Driver : cdc_acm > State : disconnected > Default: no > > I have tried calling Verizon about connecting to Linux, but have only > waded through the first layer of responders that were not aware of > Linux. > > Have any of you used these with Fedora? Can you point me in the > direction of a "how to" or is there an easy switch to toggle. I tether my Verizon Blackberry Storm (hereafter called "BB") to my laptop (F11) on occasion to use it as a wireless modem. You need to jump through some hoops (e.g. barry and XmBlackberry) to get it to set up the modem for use, but it works. What follows is what I do on the BB. You first have to dial "#777" (at least on the BB). Once that's done, the trick is knowing what your username and password are. Your user name is your cell number (area code and number without the leading "1", "@vzw3g.com" (probably...at least mine is). The password is your phone number (again, without the leading "1". Example: Username: 8885551234@xxxxxxxxx Password: 8885551234 So, my /etc/chatscripts/blackberry file looks like: ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED ABORT ERROR SAY "Initializing\n" '' ATZ OK-AT-OK ATDT#777 CONNECT \d\c That script is called via the "/etc/ppp/peers/blackberry" script: debug debug debug nodetach # NOTE: This may change depending on which device XmBlackberry # sets up as the serial port for the modem... /dev/pts/7 115200 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/blackberry" nomultilink defaultroute noipdefault ipcp-restart 7 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote # added this, so that it doesn't disconnect after few mn of innactivity lcp-echo-interval 0 lcp-echo-failure 999 modem noauth nocrtscts noipdefault novj # refused anyway, no point in trying every time usepeerdns user 8885551234@xxxxxxxxx password 8885551234 I hope that helps. And yes, it was a right bitch to figure all that out. Google can be your friend, but you have to interpolate some of the data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick, Thanks much for the information. I'll let you know how it goes!!!! Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
