Vodafone pc card. Please help!

[Jordi Ferrando Fabra]

Hi Mario,

Good! I was also with wvdial because I did not know of kppp. Of course 
it is much better.
I would like to have also the accumulated traffic, I have a very 
expensive fare of 0.5€/MByte, how can I enable it the counter?

Mario Gianni escribió:
> Guys
>
> Just to let you know. I was able to configure kppp. It's much nicer 
> that wvdial. It provides for example details on the connections with 
> logs so that you know how much traffic you have done with your card ( 
> e.g. I have 600mb included every 2 months).
>
> It's very easy. Just open kppp and create a new modem selecting 
> /dev/ttyUSB0. Then click on configure modem and put the 2 init strings 
> above (you can only put 2 init strings so I have condensed the above 
> in 2 strings):
>
> Init1 = ATZE0V1&D2&C1S0=0+IFC=2,2
> Init2 =AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it <http://web.omnitel.it>";
>
> You need to select None as flow control otherwise modem won't be 
> detected. Then if you query the modem you'll be able to see it.
>
> At the end just create an account called Vodafone to put the phone 
> number (*99***1#) and username/pwd.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help guys.
> Mario
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/23/07, *Howard Coles Jr.* <dhcolesj at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dhcolesj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sunday 22 July 2007 01:35:35 pm Mario Gianni wrote:
>
>     >
>     > Jordi, it's exactly the same. Today I installed firefox via
>     adept manager
>     > (because apt-get works) and it works! So it must be an issue with
>     > konqueror. Firefox opens all web site. So tomorrow I'll start to
>     use my
>     > kubuntu system. As soon as I'll be back I'll remove XP. ;)
>     >
>     > Just one quick thing. Did you try to use kppp instead of wvdial.
>     It seems
>     > to have the same flexibility to create a modem and set up the modem
>     > parameters.
>     >
>     > I really want to say thanks to you and Howard for the great support.
>     >
>     > Ciao
>     > Mario
>     >
>
>     Great to hear! For Konqueror, check your proxy settings. Anyway, keep
>     digging, you'll get better at this as time goes on.
>
>
>     --
>     See Ya'
>     Howard Coles Jr.
>     John 3:16!
>
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