<div dir="ltr">I had a similar happy moment with Fedora 9. NetworkManager understands my Verizon card, saw it immediately and all I had to do was put in my cards "phone number" and vzw for the password and name the connection. Now all I do is plug in the card and in about 15-20 seconds, I'm online.<br>
<br>Big difference over prior releases. F7,8 required much manual futzing with ppp-chat scripts. Work laptop with Ubuntu 7.x was not as nice as the 8.x series.<br><br>Yay! Linux!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Mike Harrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meuon@geeklabs.com">meuon@geeklabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Sometimes, Linux just makes things too easy to believe. Especially Ubuntu.<br>
We needed to make a laptop online, just about anywhere.<br>
We bought an Verizon USB 727 and plugged it into an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy<br>
Heron powered laptop. Tailing /var/log/messages, I see an Airprime driver<br>
installed as /dev/ttyUSB0 (actually, /dev/ttyUSB0-/dev/ttyUSB15). Lets see<br>
if we get lucky:<br>
<br>
as root:<br>
<br>
#ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/nodem (optional, see below)<br>
<br>
#pppconfig<br>
<br>
1. create a connection,<br>
2. named provider<br>
3. dynamic dns<br>
4. PAP Authentication<br>
5. <a href="mailto:use%3AYourDevicePhoneNumber@vzw3g.com">use:YourDevicePhoneNumber@vzw3g.com</a> as a login<br>
6. vzw as a password.<br>
7. 115200 as speed<br>
8. tone (of couse)<br>
9. #777 as number to dial<br>
10. /dev/modem as modem (or /dev/ttyUSB0)<br>
11. Pick "Finish".<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
And now, the commands "pon" will initiate the connection (mine worked the<br>
first time) and "poff" will hang up.<br>
"plog" is useful for seeing the log as it connects.<br>
<br>
It worked the very first time. Wow.<br>
<br>
Because of the Airprime driver, it gets amazing speeds, my speed tests<br>
are showing bursts in the 800kbps range (<a href="http://bandwidthplace.com" target="_blank">bandwidthplace.com</a>)<br>
<br>
The bad news: $60 per month for a high usage plan from Verizon.<br>
Keeping the sales droids from trying to configure WiFi or<br>
networking while at a clients location: Priceless.<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br><br>
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