[Novalug] Aircard on Linux?

Joseph Brinkley brinkley.joseph@gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 11:36:06 EST 2009


i use my LG cell phone all the time!!

I don't use the Blue tooth anymore but the cable + dialing #777 after a
litte rigging works great.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, The Doctor <drwho@virtadpt.net> wrote:

> Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> > Anybody success using Verizon's Air Card (this is cellular, not wifi) on
> > Linux - w/o patching kernel and/or complicated configuring? Using Ubuntu
> > with default gnome interface.
>
> I've used the Verizon Wireless AirCard 595 (I think; I'll ask when next
> I go to the office) and the USB 720 under Gentoo Linux without any
> driver trouble.  In both cases I plugged the device in, the kernel
> recognized the device, loaded the drivers, and presented device nodes in
> /dev; the one you want is /dev/ttyUSB0.  If you plug it in, you should
> see something like the following in your kernel message buffer (note: I
> have a USB cell modem now; I used to have the PCMCIA version):
>
> usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
> USB Serial support registered for generic
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
> usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
> USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
> option 6-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
> usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> option 6-1:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
> usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> usbcore: registered new interface driver option
> option: v0.7.2:USB Driver for GSM modems
>
> I use Gnome-PPP to configure the connection profile; the only hard part
> was finding out from $work what the phone number associated with the
> device was (which you'll need for the NPANXXXXXX).
>
> The phone number you need Gnome-PPP to dial is #777; the username is
> NPANXXXXXX@vzw3g.com, with a password of 'vzw' (no ticks).
>
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