Umts pendrive modem installation

[Rodolfo Medina]

I've been following the guide at:

 http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=38

and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch.
Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under MS Windows
they're about 80 Kb/s.

Does anyone have any experience with this matter and/or any suggestions about
what the problem might be with Debian Linux?  I compiled the kernel, as
described in the above guide, so it shouldn't be because the kernel is too
old.  Maybe a complete kernel update is necessary?

Thanks in advance for any help
Rodolfo


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[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@...> writes:

> I've been following the guide at:
>
>  http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=38
>
> and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch.
> Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under MS Windows
> they're about 80 Kb/s.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this matter and/or any suggestions about
> what the problem might be with Debian Linux?  I compiled the kernel, as
> described in the above guide, so it shouldn't be because the kernel is too
> old.  Maybe a complete kernel update is necessary?

In order to solve the problem, I want to try to upgrade completely from Etch
to Lenny, but don't know what exactly to put in sources.list.  Please can
anyone suggest the proper lines?

Here is my sources.list:

deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official DVD Source-3 20070407-17:27]/ etch contrib main
deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official DVD Source-2 20070407-17:27]/ etch contrib main
deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official DVD Source-1 20070407-17:27]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main



Thanks
Rodolfo


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[Andrei Popescu-3]

On Tue,22.Jul.08, 17:30:39, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 

> In order to solve the problem, I want to try to upgrade completely from Etch
> to Lenny, but don't know what exactly to put in sources.list.  Please can
> anyone suggest the proper lines?
>
> Here is my sources.list:
>
> deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official DVD Source-3 20070407-17:27]/ etch contrib main
> deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official DVD Source-2 20070407-17:27]/ etch contrib main
> deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official DVD Source-1 20070407-17:27]/ etch contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main

 

deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib

See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and
choose one close to you.

Regards,
Andrei
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[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@...> writes:

> I've been following the guide at:
>
>  http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=38
>
> and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch.
> Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under MS Windows
> they're about 80 Kb/s.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this matter and/or any suggestions about
> what the problem might be with Debian Linux?  I compiled the kernel, as
> described in the above guide, so it shouldn't be because the kernel is too
> old.  Maybe a complete kernel update is necessary?
>
> [...]
>
>> In order to solve the problem, I want to try to upgrade completely from Etch
>> to Lenny, but don't know what exactly to put in sources.list.  Please can
>> anyone suggest the proper lines?

Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@...> writes:

> deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
>
> See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and
> choose one close to you.



I put that line in /etc/sources.list, then connected to internet and did:

 # apt-get update
 # apt-get dist-upgrade

.  The process took a long time, then I rebooted.  But when I do `uname -r' I
still get the same output as before: 2.6.18-4-k7.  How is that possible?  I
wanted to upgrade to Lenny just to upgrade the kernel...

Thanks
Rodolfo


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[Andrei Popescu-3]

On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:23:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 

> > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
> >
> > See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and
> > choose one close to you.
>
>
>
> I put that line in /etc/sources.list, then connected to internet and did:
>
>  # apt-get update
>  # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> .  The process took a long time, then I rebooted.  But when I do `uname -r' I
> still get the same output as before: 2.6.18-4-k7.  How is that possible?  I
> wanted to upgrade to Lenny just to upgrade the kernel...

 

You probably didn't have any kernel metapackage installed or because
there are no more k7 kernels. Try installing linux-image-2.6-686, this
will always pull the latest 2.6 kernel. Old kernels have to be removed
by hand.

If you have an AMD64 processor you might want to try the -amd64 kernel
as well.

Regards,
Andrei
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[Thomas Preud'homme-2]

The Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:37:24 Andrei Popescu, you wrote :

> On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:23:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
> > >
> > > See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and
> > > choose one close to you.
> >
> > I put that line in /etc/sources.list, then connected to internet and did:
> >
> >  # apt-get update
> >  # apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > .  The process took a long time, then I rebooted.  But when I do `uname
> > -r' I still get the same output as before: 2.6.18-4-k7.  How is that
> > possible?  I wanted to upgrade to Lenny just to upgrade the kernel...
>
> You probably didn't have any kernel metapackage installed or because
> there are no more k7 kernels. Try installing linux-image-2.6-686, this
> will always pull the latest 2.6 kernel. Old kernels have to be removed
> by hand.
>
> If you have an AMD64 processor you might want to try the -amd64 kernel
> as well.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei

Or even install linux-image-686 / linux-image-k8 which will install the latest
kernel (So you'll be ready in 15 years if Linux become 2.8 ;))


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[Michelle Konzack-2]

Hello Rodolfo,

Am 2008-07-22 13:44:29, schrieb Rodolfo Medina:
> I've been following the guide at:
>
>  http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=38
>
> and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch.
> Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under MS Windows
> they're about 80 Kb/s.

It seems you have found the GPRS modem and NOT the UMTS modem.

GSM hardware have generaly three devices:

1)  Audio-Codec
2)  1st Serial port for Vocie/SMS/GPRS/EDGE control/Data
3)  2nd Serial port for UMTS/HSDPA

If your UMTS Dongle does only support ONE serial port, you have
to setup an AT-Comand to switch it into the UMTS/HSDPA mode...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
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