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Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/06/24, 23:02:11

I used in the passed years wvdial, but I lost my wvdial.conf in my laptopchange...
Sad but true. ;-)

what would you recommend? wvdial or are there in the meantime other possibilities,
What about networkmanager, can I connect to Vodafone mobile (umts) with it?

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: michaa7 on 2012/06/27, 19:01:32

I would ask in the semplice forum
http://semplice-linux.sourceforge.net/community/
, it's an italian debian/sid distro with it and en forum. I think you can assume, that *there* you get better info about italian mobil providers, Vodafone included.

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/06/27, 22:58:04

thanks :-)

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: mork on 2012/06/28, 10:15:34

Configuring a mobile netwwork with networkmanager isn't difficult. It worked for me using a Huawei (E160??) UMTS-Stick and a vodafone SIM-Card.
What would be different using an italian card? All you need is the APN, or am i wrong?

greetings,
mork

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/06/28, 11:52:08

I didn't even know that networkmanager can do it. I will try it!

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: mork on 2012/06/28, 13:03:39

There's a thread somewhere with the extra packages you need to install...

Good luck,
mork

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/07/02, 16:46:05

hi mork, I do not understand this...
You mean a thread here in the siduction-forum?

my usb Stick:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E230/E270/E870 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: mork on 2012/07/02, 18:20:17

yes, the info is in a thread in this forum:

Quote from: "bluelupo"Hallo ayla,
du musst folgende Packete installieren:

* network-manager
* plasma-widget-networkmanagement
* evtl. noch etwas aus empfohlenen Packeten (zB VPN, modemmanager für UMTS-Verbindungen) installieren

Danach die /etc/network/interfaces bis auf die Loopback Einträge (lo) leer machen. Dann in den Systemsettings unter Netzwerkeinstellungen LAN, WLAN und ggf. UMTS konfigurieren.

Um das Widget noch nutzen zu können solltest du das noch über den Dialog "Miniprogramme installieren" auf die Kontrolleiste legen (müsste Netzwerkverwaltung heissen). Hiermit musst dann bei einem Wechsel zB von LAN- auf WLAN-Verbindung nicht mehr die Systemsettings bemühen.

You need plasma-widget-networkmanagement for kde, with xfce/lxde something else.... network-manager-gnome?

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/07/02, 19:28:06

thanks. In the meantime i found the wikitext from bluelupo.

http://wiki.siduction.de/index.php?title=Network-Manager_auf_der_Kommandozeile

i installed modemtools and a lot else with

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apt-get install network-manager modemmanager mobile-broadband-provider-info plasma-widget-networkmanagement network-manager-vpnc network-manager-openvpn network-manager

Now, I can open and configure "mobile devices". I added an italian vodafone configuration, added passwords, pin ecc.... and its not connecting.

The same sim with wvdial, and the configuration I used for years), I found it on a friends linux computer from 2009, does not work either.

The errormessage from wvdial:

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wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:409: static void WvTaskMan::_stackmaster(): Assertion `magic_number == -0x123678' failed.

In my Google-Nexus Mobil the italian sim is working, I can use internet by opening a mobile hotspot... but its not so handy for me, because I have to change the sim everytime...

SO, if anybody has more ideas...
I will google a bit for the errormessage!

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/07/02, 19:32:04

For wvdial it seems to be an bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674006
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677527

Bad timing...

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/07/16, 18:32:00

Mit der neuen Version von libwvstreams4.6-base sollte wvdial laut Bugreport evtl gehen. Hat das schon jemand getestet?

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: whistler_mb on 2012/07/16, 21:11:29

bei mir läuft es

Title: Going to italy - how do I get Vodafone-UMTS?
Post by: Lanzi on 2012/07/17, 04:21:55

Danke für die Rückmeldung!

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