Umts
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To surf via UMTS under Linux in Germany, I choose SUSE 11.0 Linux and a Fonic Surf Stick. It may work same or similar with another hardware, distribution or country. Do the following steps as root:
- Activate it on http://www.fonic.de.
- Install umtsmon
yast2 -i umtsmon
- attach your USB device Surf Stick
- Start umtsmon, enter your pin
- Choose Connection|Manage profiles
- Add a profile with the APN pinternet.interkom.de, save it
- Click Connection|Connect.
It works now:
tweedleburg:~ # ping www.heise.de
PING www.heise.de (193.99.144.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=1158 ms
64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=896 ms
64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=719 ms
^C
--- www.heise.de ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 received, 25% packet loss, time 4291ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1890.317/2142.079/2282.493/178.426 ms, pipe 3
tweedleburg:~ # ifconfig
[...]
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.70.158.184 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:340 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:112893 (110.2 Kb) TX bytes:58689 (57.3 Kb)
You can now surf in
- UMTS
- GPRS
- HSDPA and
- GSM
networks. Umtsmon also supports sending SMS.
[edit] TroubleShooting
- under Ubuntu I got an error message that ppp did not start. Solution was to run umtsmon as root, e.g.:
sudo ./umtsmon
