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

[Duncan Roe]

Sierra Wireless(SW) modems can come configured to use some proprietary and
closed SW protocol. The ones I encountered could be reconfigured, but ony with
other closed s/w running on Windoze.

Cheers ... Duncan.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:28:22PM +1000, Jim Croft wrote:
> 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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