Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[hondasid]

ok, i have read every single post that comes up when you search for alltel. I have installed 3gwirelessdialup.pet and usbmodeswitcher.pet . everytime i change a rule, on startup it gives me an invalid rule error. i have tried 2 different sticks with 2 different accounts, both are recognized as usb storage and show up as a cd drive on the desktop and pmount. I have specified usbserial be loaded on startup and changed wvdial.conf to usb/ttyUSB0. the connection wizard says a modem is detected at this point, but tests, probes, and connections are met with modem not detected or no such file or directory. Please help! I have computers waiting to be sold, if only I can solve this problem!

I'm running standard puppy 4.12 and have also tried it in macpup 4.12. neither work.

[tempestuous]

[hondasid]

ok, i ran the command you gave and got no such file or directory.

under pupscan, I got this info about the stick

Manufacturer=PANTECH
Product=USB MMC Storage
SerialNumber=000000000002
Vendor Id= 106c Product ID=3b03 Kernel Module = usb-storage

I have removed usbserial from startup modules, no change

[technosaurus]

I run this script for my huawei with alltell

#!/bin/sh
rmmod usb-storage
rmmod usbserial
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1001
pupdial


(you would just need to change your vendor Id and product ID)

phone is #777

[hondasid]

ok, i ran that script, with the id's changed to match my hardware. It at least tried to send initialization stings, but said modem not responding. it still sees this as a blank 28MB Cd that you can't write to. It seems like usbmodeswitcher isn't working. I've installed the 2 pets and supposedly all I had to do was set my apn, username and password and it would connect no problem. am i the only person with this problem?

[tempestuous]

[technosaurus]

@tempestuous - I mentioned that the vendor and product ID would need to be changed.... now that we know what the usbserial id is all that needs to be done is plug those numbers in and the script will work (which can be saved and used on almost any version of puppy)

[tempestuous]

[hondasid]

ok, i have the vendor id and product id from pupscan, but i think the product id gets changed. it will be tomorrow before I can test the .pet you gave me (i left my flash drive at work), but i will post as soon as i get it run in the afternoon.

the script you posted seems to have worked, kinda, but i still don't have a connection. and i know that you have to change the username to phonenumber@alltel.net and the password to alltel. right now, my problem is getting the modem recognized as a modem.

This is widely used in my area as a way to connect online. If I can get this to work, then I can turn on a lot of new users to Puppy.

[tempestuous]

[tempestuous]

I just updated the earlier post to suggest that the cdc_acm module should be loaded instead of usbserial module.

[hondasid]

ok, i made the .conf like you said and replaced it, ran the command, and boom. it recognizes the modem, but keeps initializing, waiting for carrier says no carrier and starts over.

I switched the wireless sticks and changed the phone numbers as a further test. Mine works. The other stick I have may actually be disconnected or i may have the wrong phone number for it, it is a customer's and not mine. but the .conf you provided, as well as the modprobe command work, so you guys can add that into a future release.

now comes the real test. lets get one of these sticks to connect on one of my P1 200M with 64 MB of RAM.

Thanx a million guys. I'm doing what I can to spread the Puppy word to Texas.

[tempestuous]

I need to know what you did after running the usb_modeswitch command - was it necessary to load the cdc_acm module?

[hondasid]

i installed 3g wireless and usbmodeswitch.pet

i then made the script you gave me and saved it over the usbmodeswitch.conf

there was no modem symlink in /dev, so i added one from ttyUSB0 to Modem

i ran usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf

i then ran modprobe cdc_acm

restarted the unit, and ran pupdial. hit probe, and everything was set up from there

Thanx a million. I can now re-install my puppy HD back into this dell so i don't have to use Windoze just for the internet connection.

(I had a problem and had to re-run both the commands and re-probe after a shutdown. Does that have to do with the boot msg I get, READ ONLY FILESYSTEM? If so, how do I correct?
y wife won't switch to puppy until I get the internet working with a click or 2.)

[tempestuous]