From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lgiar-00060s-2w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:44:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F28A9E0586; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:44:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f175.google.com (mail-gx0-f175.google.com [209.85.217.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD429E0586 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:44:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so2458263gxk.10 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:44:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aq50I59KzM/ctevgMKeYSolb1nNMWZpX0EMWgBSMgkc=; b=H6xoEsZWb5f5OphiCxlHNrzhemk8h2Zz1Zt1CBzj7uR0C3f7N0Q7CReVLYjUVV0+qN rFmlwzAftPQRwpBlQBrZMmOsbFu3Ub5edwGiDncnvvunuox/04nTXFyGR10zObtGRBJg wyChHF03rnrP3ocTAoNsnoAHyQpBUmsnugsi0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=aMoiCADTOHrVus0X09PtCD43vC+m6rFFXjD30CgLUtWQ/gqGRYWCzZNEOgidXoBtPb rTmZ8dl47Uj4UwYvyfjlqul4zyTKsMRRBeMInBDL9x//fhEKzV8Ku3j7gOAQb+q2BDrX GZwnmFg04U6ASP0Yeur9gFwO0mPHPoMdB+P6Y= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.190.12 with SMTP id n12mr9958658ybf.0.1236617083370; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:44:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903090827g6c3dcdcbva0ed1ec183eb0184@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10903071637n7e4499ffv5263288db54029b3@mail.gmail.com> <20090308101530.401e5abe@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49bf44f10903080856p269ef101ja2b0461d1da1739e@mail.gmail.com> <20090308165923.5eb1a00b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49bf44f10903090827g6c3dcdcbva0ed1ec183eb0184@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:44:43 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fef87d476bd7717b Message-ID: <58965d8a0903090944j3f0eebb2k4429ca59aa87ba3f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5ab73564-d9fb-4fc1-872e-2a8740818f75 X-Archives-Hash: b603c997c50645bafdf7357331c90421 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Grant 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.