I have an o2 surf stick to provide me with connectivity on the go via UMTS. It worked fine so far under Windows and it worked also my MacBook. Now I wanted to use it also from my new Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex) laptop. The first thing I tried was to start it with wine. But this did not work out… The solution was brought to me through the following links:
- http://umtsmon.sourceforge.net/downloads.shtml
- http://www.trueten.de/archives/4587-Mit-dem-eee900-und-ubuntu-via-UMTS-ins-Internet.html=holprige
- http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
The receipe of my setup was:
- install dependent libraries
- $ sudo apt-get -f install gcom libusb-dev
- download usb_modeswitch sources
- $ tar xjvf usb_modeswitch-0.9.5.tar.bz2
- $ cd usb_modeswitch-0.9.5/
- $ ./compile.sh
- copy the built binary into my bin dir
- $ sudo cp usb_modeswitch /usr/bin/
- copy the default config to /etc and uncomment the right device
- $ sudo cp usb_modeswitch.conf /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf
- I guessed and uncommented the area with the many ‘Huawei’ device entries
- now comes what you will have every time you want connect
- $ sudo usb_modeswitch
- $ sudo usbmon &
- starts the small GUI application, enter you PIN and select ‘connect’
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