Vodafone pc card. Please help!

[Mario Gianni]

On Monday 23 July 2007 17:08:00 Jordi Ferrando Fabra wrote:
> 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?
>

Jordi

Kppp is included into Kubuntu (in the Internet menu). There is a phone costs 
field but not sure how to use it. The strange behaviour is that I tried to 
see the connection logs but don't see anything. It seems like nothing was 
recorded.

Thanks
Mario


> 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