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Send/Recieve SMS on Telstra MF 626 prepaid modem with Ubuntu

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Before you can do this you should have disabled the ISO mode on the modem from the instructions here.

You can send and receive SMS using the modem that comes with Telstra prepaid mobile broadband by using a program called Phone Manager which can be installed in gnome. You can install it with

sudo apt-get install gnome-phone-manager

Once it is installed you can

n access it in Applications > System Tools > Phone Manager.

Open phone manager and its icon will appear in the notification area. Right click on the icon and go to preferences.

When you are in preferences, click on the connection tab.

Select the phone connection as ‘Other Port’ and enter the port as the port that your modem is using. It is probably ‘/dev/ttyUSB3′ but could be something else. You can use ‘ls /dev |grep ttyUSB’ to help you find the correct port. It will usually be the last one that is listed from the command.

Close the preferences window. You will now be able to send and receive SMS messages using your mobile broadband modem.

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Telstra Pre-Paid Wireless Broadband – Ubuntu

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Gnome-PPP Connection Details

Gnome-PPP Connection Details

I bought one of these today with the MF 626 USB modem and after a few hours of trying different things got it working sufficiently on Ubuntu 8.10

Here is how to get it working:

  1. When you first plug the modem into a Windows computer it will install the drivers and the user interface. The Telstra Connection Manager will automatically launch.
  2. Close the Telstra Connection Manager. Using the device manager find the com port of the modem. Open Hyperterminal and connect to the modem with these settings:
    Hyperterminal Configuration Settings
    115200 – Bits per second
    8 – Data bits
    None – Parity
    1 – Stop bits
    None – Flow Control
  3. Send these commands to the modem by copying them and then in Hyperterminal right click and paste. 
    AT+ZOPRT=5
AT+ZCDRUN=8
  4. On Ubuntu install gnome-ppp for connecting to the modem. 
    sudo apt-get install gnome-ppp
  5. Open the gnome-ppp config file 
    gedit ~/.wvdial.conf

    and paste the following code into it.

    [Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB3
ISDN = off
Modem Type = USB Modem
Baud = 7200000
Init = ATZ
Init2 =
Init3 =
Init4 =
Init5 =
Init6 =
Init7 =
Init8 =
Init9 =
Phone = *99#
Phone1 =
Phone2 =
Phone3 =
Phone4 =
Dial Prefix =
Dial Attempts = 1
Dial Command = ATM1L3DT
Ask Password = off
Password = off
Username = na
Auto Reconnect = off
Abort on Busy = off
Carrier Check = off
Check Def Route = off
Abort on No Dialtone = off
Stupid Mode = on
Idle Seconds = 0
Auto DNS = on
;Minimize = off
;Dock = on
;Do NOT edit this file by hand!

    You may need to change the number at the end of the second line depending on your setup. If you cant connect to the modem restart and run

    ls /dev |grep ttyUSB

    It will be the last device that gets listed.

  6. Save and close gedit
  7. Open /etc/init.d/rc.local in gedit 
    sudo gedit /etc/init.d/rc.local

    and add these lines

    modprobe -r usbserial
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0031

    Save and close

  8. Restart with modem unplugged and plug modem in after starting.
  9. Open Gnome-PPP and click connect. You should now be online.

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