Comments on: Telstra Pre-Paid Wireless Broadband – Ubuntu

By: Fungyo

Fungyo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:01:25 +0000

Hi Nick,

You shouldn’t need the gnome-ppp package with 9.10. Follow this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1302235

By: Nick Kenney

Nick Kenney — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:43:21 +0000

Hi Matt:

Enjoyed reading your article regarding the configuration of a Telstra/ZTE MF626 Pre-paid Wireless modem working under Ubuntu. I’ve had the same problem for months and unfortunately still have the problem.

I followed your advice and tried downloading Gnome-PPP; unfortunately I have no modem connection at all with Linux so I can’t download it from the Ubuntu site using the sudo apt-get command. All I get is a message informing me that there is no connection.

I tried downloading it via Windows onto the desktop, loading Ubuntu and copying it across; however, I find that there are so many dependencies that I cannot get it to run. I’m trying to configure Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix from a USB stick, any thoughts on how to install Gnome-PPP manually?

Regards…

By: JKC

JKC — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:43:52 +0000

have you guys registered by phoning 138887, i did this after being totally confused and it was working 1 minute after i phoned the operator from telsta …thats telstra pre paid with the usb stick….hope it helps someone anyway all the best Jaimie…

By: echofish

echofish — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:29:50 +0000

Nevermind that last post. I now get to after restarting:
–> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
–> Unable to run /usr/sbin/pppd.
–> Check permissions, or specify a “PPPD Path” option in wvdial.conf.

Anyone?

By: echofish

echofish — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:52:40 +0000

Hello. I have followed this guide, but it doesn’t work.
Is the usb a modem when the result is this?
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 19d2:0031 ONDA Communication S.p.A.

When I connect with Gnome PPP I get “Modem is not responding”.
I have followed another guide that used usbmodeswitch, is it possible that this mess it up?

By: Lj Evanetti

Lj Evanetti — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:16:40 +0000

Hey Matt,

I bought a Blink Nomad at Harvey Norman this week.

Tried using Wine to install the Windows software but cannot connect to the USB device.

I love using Ubuntu so I’ll try the above instructions… I can only use XP online ATM.

Please reply if there are some changes to your solution for wireless broadband.

Cheers,
Lj

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:17:46 +0000

After a bit of experimenting it seems that Ubuntu’s speedy evolution has rendered many of the complicated steps above no longer necessary.

With the CD auto-run disabled the Modem is plug n play in Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). All that is then required is to input your location and APN name appropriate to your ISP in the NetworkManager Applet.

I have written a brief guide here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1302235

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:33:12 +0000

Hi virtualstefan

To restore the autorun I used the command:

AT+ZCDRUN=9

It worked fine for me.

See the documentation from ZTE here: http://www.zte.com.au/downloads/USB_Modem_Config_Procedure.pdf

By: Robert Ikin

Robert Ikin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:59:03 +0000

G’day Matt,
We’re attempting to get ZTE MF626 modem running a Telstra pre-paid service running using info from this forum, but we have the same problem as Roland Bieg ( Jan20 2009), unfortunately there were no suggestions as to a fix for the problem, what are we doing wrong and what is the course of action to fix it?
Thanks in anticipation,
Robert.

By: virtualstefan13

virtualstefan13 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:13:42 +0000

Oh.. I see. .. I may need to dig deeper into the forums again… hehe

Whenever you have the information to bring back the CD function in the modem… please update it into your post. I will be checking this post periodically.

Thanks,