RichyB Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Hi guys, has anyone in the uk had any good experiences with 3g dongles?? any help would be great as im not 100% sure what hardware mobile providers offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusW Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Hi Richy, I'm close to getting a Novatel 2352 working - aka the MiFi. It's a nifty unit that has room for a microSD card and has its own battery. I'm getting a response from the modem and it's reporting the signal/network. Just need to figure out the network part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichyB Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Thanks Marcus, have you bought the device and putting pre paid sim into it?? Iv seen some US guys talking about a virgin media device but i presume thats only a US device :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusW Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Yeah - bought it a while back and threw a T-Mobile sim in it. I've not seen the 'pineapple supported' devices in this country, but there's an 'unofficial list' worth looking at. PPP is being a little bit funny with the 2352. It's sending an echo request even if I tell it not to and because the 2352 doesn't respond it kills the connection, so I'm getting it restarting the connection every 20 seconds or so :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Steed Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Hey, How do you know you're getting signal on the unit? Is there a command to check this from the pineapple? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusW Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 (edited) I'm away from my pineapple at the mo, but from memory I think it's comgt -x -d /dev/ttyUSB0 Edit: Actually you can use this as well, I think it's synonymous: gcom -d /dev/ttyUSB0 Edited April 20, 2012 by MarcusW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Steed Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 I'm away from my pineapple at the mo, but from memory I think it's comgt -x -d /dev/ttyUSB0 Edit: Actually you can use this as well, I think it's synonymous: gcom -d /dev/ttyUSB0 Thanks will try it, still have trouble with a Huawei E153 shows up as Bus 001 Device 003: ID 12d1:14ac Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. so not sure if i need to switch, is there a command to connect to 3G or should it start automatically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusW Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Thanks will try it, still have trouble with a Huawei E153 shows up as so not sure if i need to switch, is there a command to connect to 3G or should it start automatically? 12d1:14ac - looks as if it's switched over from being a storage device ok. Have you done the following? rmmod usbserial insmod usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x14ac Edited April 23, 2012 by MarcusW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichyB Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 I dont think i know enough about linux to manage to do this :( ill keep an eye on this thread though Marcus you seem to be plodding along :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Steed Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 12d1:14ac - looks as if it's switched over from being a storage device ok. Have you done the following? rmmod usbserial insmod usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x14ac Awesome! thanks very much dude, couldn't find the commands, have it connected to 3g now, it's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusW Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Awesome! thanks very much dude, couldn't find the commands, have it connected to 3g now, it's great! Fantastic - glad I could help :-) Got my 2352 up and running (see my other thread) and it's a blast. Everything in my backpack, and I can configure it all through my smartphone. Discrete :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmg Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Hi, Maybe you can help, I am trying to get my 3g dongle (uk sim/) to work MK IV. I have the following: sim: Vodafone UK 3g dongle: Zoom 4595 Mk iv – firmware version 2.0.0 In web ui, Under USB : lsusb output: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1c9e:9603 OMEGA TECHNOLOGY SSH & try running the following: root@Pineapple:~# rmmod usbserial root@Pineapple:~# insmod usbserial vendor=0x1c9e product=0x9603 root@Pineapple:~# comgt -x -d /dev/ttyUSB0 High speed overide (115200 is now 57600). ***SIM ERROR*** Check device port configuration. Check SIM is inserted Test SIM in a mobile phone? root@Pineapple:~# Any ideas what this means/could be or what I am doing wrong? Looking around I found this link: https://github.com/sebkinne/wifipineapple/wiki/3G-Modem and noticed …According to Darren the following list is also supported but untested: link http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/device_reference.txt I did a search for my vendor=0x1c9e & product=0x9603, and found this: ######################################################## # MobiData MBD-200HU (aka 4G XS Stick W10/W14, aka Micromax MMX 300G, # aka ChinaBird CBCPL68) # # Contributor: Chris DefaultVendor= 0x1c9e DefaultProduct= 0xf000 TargetVendor= 0x1c9e TargetProduct= 0x9603 MessageContent="55534243123456788000000080000606f50402527000000000000000000000" Not sure if/where it’s used. Can you help? Thx rmg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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