Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to
>>> plug-and-play with one of those modems.  Do you remember the names of
>>> the kernel modules?  I've never used PPP software before.  Can you
>>> recommend a package?
>>
>> You need usbserial and the Novatel modems use the option module. I use
>> wvdial with this config, which worked with T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2.
>>
>> [Dialer tmob]
>> Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
>> Baud = 460800
>> Init2 =AT
>> Init3 = AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0
>> ISDN = 0
>> Modem Type = Analog Modem
>> Phone = *99***1#
>> Username = username
>> Password = password
>
> Thanks Neil.  Weird that wvdial is in /usr/portage but doesn't come up
> at gentoo-portage.com.

Looking at http://gentoo-portage.com/Browse it seems the entire
net-dialup category (and several others) are absent from that site.
Maybe he didn't get it all set up properly after the servers were
lost.