Actually, I do not need mobile modem for mobile browsing because I mainly use internet access at home or by using public hotspot, but sometimes I need it when traveling and there is no hotspot available. I bought Vodafone-Huawei USB/HSDPA mobile modem E270, detected as K-3565 on Windows machine.
The modem bundled with 3 GSM, local internet provider here in Indonesia. Price are about IDR 600.000,- , equivalent with approximately US$ 60, with free access bonus for 3 month. The modem also provide modem driver for Windows but sadly without modem driver for Linux. But, surprise, modem has successfully detected and works out of the box on broadband mobile connection-KDE desktop environment on openSUSE 11.3. Even better, I do not need modemswitch application to change from USB disk to USB modem.
vavai:/home/vavai # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E270 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c045 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse vavai:/home/vavai # dmesg | grep modem [ 73.732516] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port) [ 73.732557] option 1-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [ 73.732760] usb 1-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [ 73.732775] option 1-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [ 73.732891] usb 1-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 [ 73.732980] option: v0.7.2:USB Driver for GSM modems vavai:/home/vavai #
What I do simply using add Network Connection on mobile broadband network from plasma widget on the system tray (KNetwork manager), fill in some basic setting and then click connect button.
vavai:/home/vavai # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:38:C3:1F:29 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4676 (4.5 Kb) TX bytes:4676 (4.5 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.41.83.46 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:484 (484.0 b) TX bytes:387 (387.0 b) vavai:/home/vavai # ping google.co.id PING google.co.id (66.249.89.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from nrt04s01-in-f99.1e100.net (66.249.89.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=219 ms 64 bytes from nrt04s01-in-f99.1e100.net (66.249.89.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=237 ms
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