On 5/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:caston@arach.net.au">caston@arach.net.au</a></b> <<a href="mailto:caston@arach.net.au">caston@arach.net.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p> </p>Hi Tomasz,<br>
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Yes please. What was the program you used?<br>
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best regards,<br>
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Chris<span class="q"><br>
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</span></blockquote></div><br>Okay here's what I did (abridged version).. I'm just cc'ing the list so other people can see the recipe also.<br><br>First off, you'll have to use the enclosed Windows app to disable the security "feature" on the device as I couldn't get it to work otherwise.
<br>Anyway, plug it in to your Linux box. A 'lsusb' should show you a listing with the vendor and product ID of the dongle, but (probably) without listing its exact information. This is good. Do a 'modinfo usbserial' and you'll see you can feed the vendor and product as parameters you can feed in to the nice and generically written usbserial kernel module. So when you 'modprobe usbserial vendor=0x<usb vendor ID from lsusb> product=0x<usb product ID from lsusb>' and dmesg should show you with /dev/ttyUSB[0-2]. /dev/ttyUSB1 is what you're interested in. To test, you can try to use minicom on /dev/ttyUSB1.
<br><br>Once you're chatting away to the device (essentially it is almost the same as an analog modem) I used Debian/Ubuntu's pppconfig to set up a connection. The phone number you need is *99#. I gave dummy usernames and passwords in to PAP authentication as it doesn't really use them anyway (and my manager didn't give me these codes ;). From there on in, use 'pon bigpond' or whatever you named the connection and you're good to go. I was on the internet straight away!
<br><br>Hope that helps.<br>Regards,<br>Tomasz Grzegurzko<br>