- Install networkmanager-0.8 and modemmanager-0.4;
- Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-md300modem.rules with the follwing contents:
1. ACTION!="add", GOTO="3G_End" 2. SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ATTRS{idProduct}=="d0cf", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fce", PROGRAM+="md300modem.sh %p" 3. SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="d0cf", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fce", KERNEL=="ttyACM*", SYMLINK+="modem3G-%n" 4. LABEL="3G_End"
- Create the script /lib/udev/md300modem.sh with the following contents:
1. #!/bin/sh 2. echo 3 > /sys/$1/device/bConfigurationValue 3. sleep 3 4. # enables/activates the modem (turns radio on and registers to operator network). 5. chat -V -s '' "AT +CFUN=1" 'OK' '' < /dev/ttyACM0 > /dev/ttyACM0
- Run: udevadm control --reload-rules;
- Click on Plasma NM's system tray icon -> Manage Connections -> Mobile broadband -> Add -> GSM Connection and use the parameters:
Number: *99# Username: <operator's username> Senha: <operator's password> APN: <operator's apn> Type: Any
For instance my configuration is as follow:
Number: *99# Nome do usuário: tim Senha: tim APN: tim.br Type: Any
OBS: some cell phones, like my Samsung i8910, only connects if "Type" is set to "Any". The MD300 connects with any of the types listed.
- Hook up the modem to the USB port, wait until it powers up and register itself to the operator network (takes about 30 seconds to do both);
- In the Plasma NM initial window clicks on the connection you have created.
To make it easier to set up a Mobile Broadband connection I have started to port the nm-applet connection wizard to KDE. It is still in early stage and I am working on it only during weekends. Probably it will be ready for KDE release 4.6 early next year. The initial window is like this:
It takes some time to understand how both nm-applet wizard and Plasma NM kcm modue work and since I can only work on it during weekends do not expected something usefull until September.
2 comments:
This is the best thing to happen to Knetworkmanager since networkmanager itself i.e. a port of nm-applet's mobile connection wizard!
My God! Well and well!
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