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

Are you in a marginal signal area?

No (rarely, and not now).

You *don't* want EDGE

(I guess so; also, I think 2G isn't even supported by my contract at all.)

(it's about 3-4 times GPRS == 4 strings, 8 tin cans)

Heh, took me a while to get the analogy.

I collect things. Manuals, documentation, tin cans....

Heh.

Gotta watch that - in my country the slower the service the steeper the
charge (inconvience is a luxury)

If I'm correct thinking that the older protocols tie up precious
frequency bands for longer for the same amount of traffic, it makes
sense to charge more for it this way. Maybe I could tie the modem to
HSPA (if that doesn't strictly need an UMTS connection first). Maybe
poking around I'd find clues about what goes wrong.

I'll have to have dig and see if I have manual for that - from memory
it's less a USBstick and more a USBmouse - bout the size of a pack of cards.

Here's a picture:
http://www.bell.ca/shopping/en_CA_ON.Novatel-Wireless-U998/TurboStickU998.details


Does AT? give you a list of commands.

AT?
ERROR

cat /dev/ttyUSB0 should give you signal strength and available protocols.

# It didn't output anything while the connection was down (just
block), then I upped the connection, still nothing, but then when it
went down 20(-30) seconds later, this:

NO CARRIER

$CNTI: 0, HSPA+

OK

# it goes on after a while, interestingly while in blinking mode (aka
no (working) connection up anymore):

+CSQ: 12,99

OK

$CNTI: 0, HSPA+

OK

+CREG: 1,2D84,3F80

+CGREG: 1,2D84,3F80

+CSQ: 12,99

OK

$CNTI: 0, HSPA+

OK

...



I'll be back later today - I'll have a dig for the command set and check
for firmware updates then, I'm pretty sure SaskTel have the same modem.
Do you have a verbose ppp log somewhere?

I've put the outputs of

# modem-manager --debug 2>&1 |log-timestamp -H > mm.log
# NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon 2>&1
|log-timestamp -H > nm.log

here:

http://christianjaeger.ch/scratch/bell_novatel/

(There you could also find the firmware upgrader that I recently used
on my modem to no avail.)

I appreciate your help.

Christian.


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