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

[Jim Croft]

yep - works like a bought one on 'doze 'n mac.  Chris Smart did some
secret and arcane kernel incantation stuff and was informed in no
uncertain binary that a driver or similar is in the pipeline for a
future release.

will just have to wait while magic happens...

jim

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Duncan Roe<duncan_roe at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 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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