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Latest revision as of 11:25, 1 January 2021
- Note
- This is an outdated howto, kept here to show how it used to be. Today you would typically use your mobile phone, set up a hotspot, and connect your computer to it.
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
yast -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.
TroubleShooting
- under Ubuntu I got an error message that ppp did not start. Solution was to run umtsmon as root, e.g.:
sudo ./umtsmon