[ubuntu-in] Vodafone 3G USB dongle on Ubuntu

[Prakash Advani]

On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Prakash Advani<prakash at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has anyone managed to get the Vodafone 3G dongle to work on Ubuntu?
>>
>> The Vodafone store claim it to be ZTE.
>>
>> lsusb shows:
>>
>> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 19d2:1008 ONDA Communication S.p.A.
>>
>> Vodafone says no user name password, network manager detects it but is not
>> able to connect, log files shows.
>>
>> Dec 29 12:33:52 ThinkPad NetworkManager[1094]:<warn>  GSM connection failed:
>> (32) No cause information available
>> Dec 29 12:33:52 ThinkPad NetworkManager[1094]:<info>  (ttyUSB1): device
>> state change: 4 ->  9 (reason 1)
>> Dec 29 12:33:52 ThinkPad NetworkManager[1094]:<info>  Marking connection
>> 'Vodafone Vodafone Connect' invalid.
>> Dec 29 12:33:52 ThinkPad NetworkManager[1094]:<warn>  Activation (ttyUSB1)
>> failed.
>> Dec 29 12:33:52 ThinkPad NetworkManager[1094]:<info>  (ttyUSB1): device
>> state change: 9 ->  3 (reason 0)
>> Dec 29 12:33:52 ThinkPad NetworkManager[1094]:<info>  (ttyUSB1):
>> deactivating device (reas
>>
>
> Hello prakash
>
> Thanks for the heads up, I ll work on getting the settings included in
> mobile-broadband-provider-info database asap. btw by any chance have
> you tried to get dongle/modem working with usb-modeswitch?

I haven't tried with usb-modswitch

I would like to thank all of you for making sure there is excellent 
support for Indian dongles :)
> regards
>
>

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