[clug] Telstra Turbo 21 wireless modem (blue dongle thingy)

[Jim Croft]

That seems what it might be, and a 'lsusb' revealed a Sierra Wireless,
Inc. device and a vendor code (1199) and product code (68a3).

Problem is that the usb_modeswitch.conf file does not have an entry
for this beast and although the entries seem fairly simple I am not
sure of the values that have to be inserted, nor indeed what to do wit
the rest of Chris's instructions for Mike's solution, from point 3
onwards.  Thanks Mike and Hal for the pointers.

I guess I could wait to see if it comes good with 9.10, but it would
be nice to hack it into submission before then.

jim (wondering if the Linux community will ever get to the stage where
is can keep up with the hardware s it arrives, or the if the hardware
will ever offer the Linux solution as the same time it offers one for
the other OS)

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Jason<j.lee.nielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:07 +1000, Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an orange Telstra turbo modem and when I plugged it into
>> several laptops running Ubuntu 9.04, it just worked (tm).  In fact
>> better, quicker and more seamlessly that the official Telsta
>> implementation on Some Other Operating System (tm).
>>
>> Ugraded to a new blue Telstra 21 Moede
>> (http://www.telstraenterprise.com/productsservices/mobility/officemobility/Pages/Turbo21Modem.aspx?te=mb011)
>> and it just doesn't work (tm).  The flashing lights indicate that it
>> detects the 3g network but it will not connect and it is not visible
>> on the Ubuntu network connections (but the internal 1GB micro SD card
>> is).
>>
>> Has anyone had any experience with this beast?  On Ubuntu or other
>> other distro?  Any command line gurus with magic incantations to
>> share?  Had a quick look at blogs and similar but could not see any
>> Eureka! or Bingo! posts...
>>
>> A bit disappointed because it seems like a really nice unit.  But not
>> nice enough to tempt me back to Some Other Operating System (tm)...
>>
>> jim
>
> Just having a look it seem to be this
> http://www.sierrawireless.com/product/USB306_307.aspx
>
> They mention Mac Os support in may :P
>
> Best of luck finding something
>
> Jason
>



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