Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

Christian Jaeger <chrjae <at> gmail.com> writes:


Another update in my quest to get that UMTS modem work properly:

Bell technical support told me that I should run a firmware upgrade on
the stick (and gave me a link to the exact file). Of course that's a
windows .exe. I tried to run it in a second hand computer store that
let me plug in my Bell stick, but it didn't work, probably because I
didn't install the driver beforehand, the installer and upgrade
utility conflicted with each other. So I gave up for some time.

Now I've finally gotten an own computer with Windows (XP), so I
installed the modem first, then ran the firmware upgrade. Both worked
without problems. Also, on Windows the modem doesn't seem to exhibit
that disconnect problem. Then I tried again on Debian, and nothing
changed, disconnection on first try. Duh.

So, if anyone knows what's left that I could try (well I'll try
contacting some network manager people), or knows which USB UMTS modem
works on Debian in Canada (with Bell), please tell.

Thanks
Christian.


Reading your first post on this issue I see that you remove the option module in
favor of usbserial. That advice is all over the net. Are you still doing that ?
I think it is -basically- wrong: 'option' is the specialised driver for this and
many other 3g modems. 'usbserial' is -only- a generic driver on which you can
fall back if-all-else-fails. ( I am citing the author of usbserial )

I suggest that you go back to the beginning, probably a clean, fresh install of
Squeeze, stick the modem in and see what happens. Or a live cd, or, ..

In Squeeze usbmodeswitch is standard.
Then the option module should grab the modem.
The module creates /dev/ttyUSB*

After that the dialling: that is specific for your provider.

HTH, --Jasper.






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