Hello,
I have a Vodafone GPRS/3G (CDMA) PCMCIA card. Here is more info about this
hardware:
# lspci -vv
0000:02:00.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: OPTi Inc. 82C861
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Step ping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
On Sunday 24 April 2005 13:11, NSK wrote:
Hello,
I have a Vodafone GPRS/3G (CDMA) PCMCIA card. Here is more info about this hardware:
# lspci -vv
0000:02:00.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: OPTi Inc. 82C861 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step ping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
My question is: how can I set it up on my laptop's SuSE Linux?
Vodafone supports this card only on Windows. The card is locked until the software transmits a PIN code that I type. I am afraid that even if I make this hardware work on SuSE, I won't know how to transmit my PIN to unlock it.
I tried running Vodafone's software in WINE emulation but it is impossible (it crashes).
The card seems to incorporate a USB circuit which somehow is connected to an internal antenna, most probably via some sort of modem. The card had labels "Qualcomm CDMA" and "Manufactured by Opti". After searching on the Internet I found the site of Qualcomm ( http://www.cdmatech.com/ ) but I don't know which chipset the card uses. It can connect to both GPRS and CDMA networks but it doesn't work in USA (only in EU). Its datarates are 384kbits downstream and 64kbits upstream (I think).
Because I want to code on my laptop's SuSE whenever I am out of home, it is very important for me to have this wireless connection work. Please help me set up this card.
Hi NSK (what a funny name ;), sorry, I can't give you a ready made solution for this specific card. But if you can get a Sierra Wireless 555 CDMA aircard, or similar, they work fine with Linux. There are also GPRS and EDGE cards, from Sierra, or Sony Ericsson, or Axen / Sagem, which all work with Linux, so you would have - if you need GPRS / EDGE *and* CDMA - 2 cards instead of one. If you have the choice, here CDMA works much better, less latency, much less timeouts. About your card, here some ideas how to get it working: 1) is the card recognized by your SuSE notebook? - do you get the "beep beep" after plugging the card in? - open a konsole, run "dmesg" and check the last lines: does it assign a /dev/ttySx device, or similar? - open a konsole, su to root, and run "tail /var/log/messages": is the card mentioned, or an assigned /dev/ttySx device? If that would show that the card is recognized as a serial device, then you might get it to work. You can then - later - configure it as a modem in yast, and use kinternet to connect. But continue first: 2) boot to windose, and see if you can get from the vodaphone software somewhere the protocoll of the AT commands it issues to get the card connected. If you find it, good, if not, may be it is on the Qualcomm site. Copy these AT commands carefully, and enter them when you configure the card as a modem, later in yast, etc etc. There might also be an AT command to enter the PIN, so you could enter that too, may be in a script to be run after the connect is made. But before I go more into detail, lets see if you can get through the first steps, as listed above. HTH, Matt
Thanks, -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
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