[KDE-India] Re: Airtel mobile broadband settings?

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Kishore <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 Oct 2010 10:25:58 pm Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> > Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
> > http://www.shantanutushar.com
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Kishore <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  Have any of you set up a mobile broadband connection to airtel with
> Nokia phone?
> >
> >  I have the Nokia 5233 and have the "mobile office" setup. I am currently
> running on kubuntu 10.10 (Maverick). Im not really able to get the
> connection to work with my PC. The phone appears to be detected (but dmesg
> shows the error "cdc_phonet: probe of 1-5:1.10 failed with error -22")
> >
> >  I have setup the number as *99***1#, APN as airtelgprs.com. When i
> attempt connecting, it (NetworkManager plasma widget) momentarily flashes
> with "preparing to connect" and goes back to disconnected.
> >
> >
> > 1. Though the number you've given is also correct, still try *99#
> > 2. If it still doesn't work, try using KPPP with proper settings (modem
> will be /dev/ttyACM0) and see if it connects.
> >
> >  Let me know the results :)
> Ok i've got this working now but it's funny... Here are the things i did
>
> First, i tried changing the number as you and Dinesh suggested. No luck...
>
> Then i just tried deleting the connection and creating again a GSM
> connection with the same settings. I repeated this many a time and could not
> even reproduce the "preparing to connect" that i was getting earlier.
>
> Then i again tried creating a connection but this time i did not have the
> phone connected. Once done, i connected the phone and voila! It connected
> immediately!
>
> I have no idea why it worked just by creating a connection with the phone
> disconnected! Anyway, I should explore this further... but now that i have
> it working im not really up for experimenting for the next 2-3 days as im
> travelling. :)'


Oh nice :) Just in case its useful, attach the messages the kernel spits
when you plug in your phone. Wanted to see :)


>
> Thanks guys.
> --
> Cheers!
> Kishore
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