[ale] Verizon broadband wireless card for Linux

[Jim Lynch]

Mike Harrison wrote:
>> Both worked fine in Edgy, but Hardy broke them seriously.
>>     
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> Hmm.. I just checked.. Both laptops are running Hardy Heron.
> And the Verizon USB 727 is working great. I tried it in both.
> I'm starting to think is something local to your machine.
>
> If you plug it in, does it get recognized
> tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug it in.
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Well, yes it's found and it seems to connect. It found it on 
/dev/ttyUSB3. Here's some output from various utilities.

sudo wvdial
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATX0
ATX0
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT#777
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT#777
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Tue Nov 18 15:12:06 2008
--> Pid of pppd: 6657
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> local IP address 75.201.244.86
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> remote IP address 66.174.168.64
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> primary DNS address 69.78.96.14
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]
--> secondary DNS address 66.174.95.44
--> pppd: H�[06][08]��[06][08]

jim at jim-laptop:~$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
66.174.168.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

ifconfig ppp0

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:75.201.244.86 P-t-P:66.174.168.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:1688 (1.6 KB) TX bytes:21097 (20.6 KB)




jim at jim-laptop:~$ ping 69.78.96.14
PING 69.78.96.14 (69.78.96.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.2.199 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.2.199 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.2.199 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 69.78.96.14 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3007ms
, pipe 3
jim at jim-laptop:~$ ping 66.174.95.44
PING 66.174.95.44 (66.174.95.44) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.2.199 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.2.199 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.2.199 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable


Note that there seems to be activity on ppp0 as evidenced by an increase 
in statistics from ifconfig. (Not shown)

Jim.

This all worked just fine in Edgy.