[clug] ZTE Telstra NextG on Debian

[Kevin Murray]

Hi all,

A relatively simple request: Does anyone here have experience with Telstra 3G
USB modems (NextG dongle)? I have one here, and can't for the life of me get
the expletive-removed thing working.

$ lsusb |grep -i ZTE
Bus 002 Device 023: ID 19d2:0031 ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM MF110/MF627/MF636

I have followed these two guides[0,1], and I can get wwan0 and ppp0 to
appear, and even (seem to) get an IP address from telstra, however no
internet.

Anyone have any pointers?

Cheers,
Kevin

[0] https://old-en.opensuse.org/Using_Your_Telstra_Wireless_Modem
[1] https://www.eigenmagic.com/2012/03/14/how-to-get-telstra-4g-mobile-broadband-working-with-linux/

P.S., may as well add some log/command output guff.

/etc/wvdial.conf as per [0] above.

$ sudo wvdial
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: at+cgdcont=12,"IP","telstra.internet"
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Idle Seconds = 300, disabling automatic reconnect.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
CONNECT 7200000
--> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Sat Jan 17 19:35:12 2015
--> Pid of pppd: 22413
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local  IP address 10.98.125.XXX
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> primary   DNS address 10.4.182.20
--> secondary DNS address 10.4.81.103
< and here it sits, ready to do something useful, I think>


$ ifconfig -a
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:10.98.125.XXX  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:94 (94.0 B)  TX bytes:157 (157.0 B)

wlan1     <snipped, but present>

wwan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <snip>
          inet6 addr: fe80::2813:83ff:fe6f:f45e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:520 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:32649 (31.8 KiB)

wwan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <snip>
          inet addr:169.254.9.13  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1


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