[Ubuntu-ZW] [Solved] Africom CDMA modem

[Garikai Dzoma]

Hi, Everyone

I am pleased to announce that I successfully connected using the Africom
CDMA modem and if it is of any comfort I must say that setting up the
connection was trivial.
I used two methods which both worked viz: Network manager and pon. Both
methods are outlined below. Also note these two methods work on maiden
installations i.e. there is no need to install extra software.

NetworkManager

1. Plug in your  modem before booting up the computer
2. Boot up your computer and login in to your desktop
3. Click on the networkmanager icon which is on the top right hand corner of
your desktop left of the me menu.
4. Select and click on the Edit connections menu
5. Select the Mobile Broadband tab.
6. Click on new
5. Select the my country is not listed option and click next
6. Type the Africom in the connection name box and click next
7. Enter your username at africom.co.zw in the username box
8. Enter your password in the password box and click ok
9. To connect click on the networkmanager icon and click on Africom you will
be notified if the connection was successful.



Pon
If you have beard as big as Richard Stallman's and are not intimidated by
the command line you can use this method. Also as you have noted from above
the Networkmanger method is only guaranteed to work if the modem is plugged
in before booting. With this method the modem can be plugged in at anytime
you want.

1. Plugin the modem.
2. Open the terminal and type: sudo bash
3. Enter your password and press enter
4. Type the command pppconfig and press enter.
5. In the pppconfig utility select the create new connection option using
arrow keys and  type enter.
6. Delete the default connection name(the text saying provider) and type
africom all in lower case. Changing the name is not really necessary but it
will make your life easier.
7. Using arrow keys select use DNS and press the space bar to confirm option
8. Select 'PAP Peer Authentication Protocol', hit 'Ok'.
9. Enter your username at africom.co.zw and password pressing enter after each
input.
10. Change the modem speed to 9600 (this should be safe since this is a ZTE
modem)
11. Select tone dialing and press enter.
12. Enter the phone number to dial as: #777 i.e. hush triple seven please
include the hush this is not cosmetic at all
13. Select enter modem manually ( you can also choose automatically detect
it which will not work and you will be presented with the option to enter it
manually)
14. Type /dev/ttyUSB0 as the location of the modem
15. Choose "Finished write files and return to main menu"
16. Choose "Quit exit this utility" in each case in step 15 and 16 press
enter to effect choice.
17. When back in terminal type the command: echo
'replacedefaultroute'>>/etc/ppp/peers/africom
18. Instead of the above command type: sudo route add default ppp0 everytime
you connect.
19. To connect type the command sudo pon africom
20. The connection process can be viewed by typing the command sudo plog. (
At step 19 however you can see your modem's activity light blinking)
21. To connect as an ordinary user just type the following commands:sudo
adduser Username dip and sudo adduser Username dialout replacing Username
with your username. After this you can connect by simply typing pon africom.
N.B for step 21 to work you need to have used the method in step 17.
N.B. I am working on wvdial and will bring you the guide shortly
N.B. I do not know whether this will work on the Powertel modem since I have
not been availed with the opportunity to test it yet.
Happy surfing

Yours truly,


-- 
Garikai
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