Virgin Mobile Broadband

[Blake Munro]

Hi Mark,

Not sure if this is of any help to you, however last night I successfully
connected to the internet using Ubuntu 7.10 and my Samsung Next G mobile
phone, via the USB cable.

Here's what I did:

* SU to root

    user at pc:~$ su
    password: xxxxxxx

* edit your wvdial.conf settings as follows

    root at pc:/home/user# cd /etc
    root at pc:/etc# nano wvdial.conf

* delete everything from the file except the 'Dialer Defaults' heading (if
there is none add one enclosed with '[' and ']') and add the following
(Username and Password will be different depending on provider)

    Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
    Phone = *99#
    Modem Type = USB Modem
    Baud = 115200
    Dial Attempts = 2
    Username = vdata
    Password = vdata

* Save the file by pressing CTRL-O (Output) and then CTRL-X to exit nano (I
love nano to bits - just be careful for whitespace sensitive files, for
those use VI)

* Depending on your mobile phone you may need to set it to be a modem or
internet connection. Plug in your USB data cable ( Phone must be on… snigger
:D )

* Exec the following at any point, root or not to establish an internet
connection.

    sudo wvdial

* Wait a while for a connection to take place - you can watch the output
window ;)

* Enjoy surfing

Let me know if you have any luck with that!
Cheers
Blake Munro
VK6FBNZ

On Jan 9, 2008 8:31 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, "Mark M Lambert" <mark+linux.ubuntu at marklambert.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have a friend that wants to dump Vista and try Ubuntu on her laptop.
> > She uses a Virgin Mobile Broadband USB modem (on the 3G network) and I
> > can't find any easy ways of getting it to work in Linux. Has anyone on
> > this list had any success with a similar device?
>
> I vaguely recollect that there are some people in SLUG who were/are
> looking
> for the same thing. I suggest that you check the archives on the main
> slug at slug.org.au list, and if you don't find anything ask on that list.
>
>
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