<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> I here you Sam... perhaps the linux community should start their own network "openet". On 06/10/2010 09:57, Samuel Mukoti wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTim84oqYgGQMcU6fmz40bCmD0o7C3a2MThJisx87@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Thanks guys.. I tried the wvdial route which seems to work fine.  Thanks God there is Linux support, not much can be said about the Ecoweb 4G dongle.  Thanx all, Sam <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:23 AM, O. Sinclair <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:o.sinclair@gmail.com">o.sinclair@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 06/10/2010 09:08, Samuel Mukoti wrote: > Hi, > > I've been told that the Africom modem works on Linux.  I've try > configuring NetworkManager but no luck so far.  Any tips? > </div> I am using it with no problems whatsoever under KDE Kubuntu 10.04. However, as I use WICD for network and it does not recognise modems I use command line wvdial for the Africom line. All I did was: install wvdial from command line run: sudo wvdialconf it should find the modem. Then edit /etc/wvdial.conf to something like below: [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem Baud = 460800 New PPPD = yes Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 (in my case that is) ISDN = 0 Phone = #777 (that is the number I got from Africom) Password = what Africom gave you Username = what Africom gave you then to connect run "sudo wvdial" from command line However - in my case it also works with the KNetworkManager, it is just a bit slow in finding the modem. I have tried on another laptop also, so on 2 different ones it works. Hope that helps, Sinclair -- Ubuntu-zw mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zw</a> -- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ubuntu.org.zw" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.org.zw</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://zimbabwe.ubuntuforums.org" target="_blank">http://zimbabwe.ubuntuforums.org</a> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Many Thanks, Raymond Swart Karigon (Pvt) Ltd <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.karigon.net">www.karigon.net</a> Web Development - Linux Servers - Digital Media - Support</pre> </body> </html>