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Due to Vodaphone requirements I had to hand out my ID card to the shop assistant and she activated the surf stick for me. | Due to Vodaphone requirements I had to hand out my ID card to the shop assistant and she activated the surf stick for me. | ||
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| + | = Use it = | ||
| + | * Download [http://umtsmon.sourceforge.net/ umtsmon] | ||
| + | * extract it to ~/umtsmon | ||
| + | * attach your USB device Surf Stick | ||
| + | * Start umtsmon, enter your pin | ||
| + | * Choose Connection|Manage profiles | ||
| + | * Add a profile with the APN event.otelo.de, save it | ||
| + | * Click Connection|Connect. | ||
| + | * surf to e.g. http://www.linuxintro.org to get to the otelo's payment dialog | ||
Revision as of 11:17, 10 February 2012
This describes an example how to surf via UMTS under Linux. The example has been done on 2012-02-10 in Germany with the otelo SurfStick in the Vodaphone network on SUSE Linux 11.4.. It may work same or similar with another hardware, distribution, phone network or country. Here are the steps I took after buying:
Activate it
Due to Vodaphone requirements I had to hand out my ID card to the shop assistant and she activated the surf stick for me.
Use it
- Download umtsmon
- extract it to ~/umtsmon
- attach your USB device Surf Stick
- Start umtsmon, enter your pin
- Choose Connection|Manage profiles
- Add a profile with the APN event.otelo.de, save it
- Click Connection|Connect.
- surf to e.g. http://www.linuxintro.org to get to the otelo's payment dialog
